male, like that Mexican fruit which burns
you if you bite into it! At college one
could hardly come near him without
getting scorched by his tricks. Remember
my telling you about my putting
in an appearance in class one day--Physics
3--boasting of the latest thing in
student's bags, setting it down beside me--and
not seeing it again for three weeks?
The terrible Treff, of course! The climax
came, as you know, when he locked a
gray-haired professor into the padded cell
for opposing baseball too early in the season,
while the campus was still soft."

"Mer-rcy! And kept him there for
ages--in that stuffy little room, all
wadded and lined with brown burlap,
used for analyzing sound--the prof not
able to make himself heard!"

The listener, girl-like, drew fresh excitement
from a faded tale.

"Yes--that meant expulsion, of
course, and his family, one and all, turning
a cold shoulder on Treff, before he
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