CHAPTER XV.
PIKE AND BADGER.
The next evening, which was Tuesday evening, while the societies were hilariously enjoying their annual calcium-light procession, Donald Pike took a car and hastened to the home of the Honorable Fairfax Lee.

He had tarried in the campus long enough to be sure that Winnie Lee was again enjoying the processional festivities from one of the dormitory windows.
"Nobody will know whether I am in that procession or not," he muttered, as he started toward Lee's.

"And if they do know, what is the difference?
I'm under no obligation to be there, and I can say that I had a headache, or anything else I want to, if I choose to take the trouble to account for my absence." To Pike's great satisfaction, he found Fairfax Lee at home; and when he told the servant that he had an important communication to make, he was invited into the waiting-room, and finally was ushered into the presence of Mr.Lee.
The facing of Mr.Lee in this manner, even though he could claim disinterested motives, rather phased even the blunted spirit of Donald Pike.

If he had dared to, he would have committed his story to writing, and so brought it to Lee's attention.

But things that are written often have an unpleasant way of reappearing, to the discomfiture and undoing of the writer, and Pike's caution warned him against such risks.