of the great State Seal of Kansas, with its inscription They saw
something more in that upward glance. On the stairway of the rotunda,
Elinor Wream, the niece of the president of Sunrise College,
was leaning over the balustrade, looking at them with curious eyes.
Her smile of recognition as she caught sight of Professor Burgess,
gave place to an expression of half-concealed ridicule, as she
glanced down at Vic Burleigh, the big, heavy-boned young fellow,
so grotesquely impossible to the harmony of the place.

As the two men dropped their eyes, they encountered the
upturned face of a plainly dressed girl coming up the stairs
from the basement, with a big feather duster in her hand.
It was old Bond Saxon's daughter Dennie, who was earning
her tuition by keeping the library and offices in order.
As if to even matters, it was Vic Burleigh who caught a token
of recognition now, while the young Professor was surveyed
with fearless disapproval.

All this took only a moment of time. Long afterward these two
men knew that in that moment an antagonism was born between
them that must fight itself out through the length of days.
But now, Dr. Lloyd Fenneben, Dean of Sunrise, known to students
and alumni alike as "Dean Funnybone," was grasping each man's
hand with a cordial grip and measuring each with a keen glance
from piercing black eyes, as he bade them equal welcome.

And here all likeness of conditions ends for these two. Days come
and go, moons wax and wane, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter glide fourfold through their appointed seasons,
before the two young men stand side by side on a common level again.