Here it laughed at the drowning cries of those who were caught
in the fatal whirlpool beyond the curve in the river wall,
and here it endured siege and slaughter when foes were valiant enough,
and numerous enough to storm into its stronghold over the dead bodies
of their own vanguard.

Weird and tragical are the legends of the Kickapoo Corral,
left for a stronger race to marvel over. For, with the swing of time,
the white man cut a road down the steep bluff at the sharpest bend
and made a ford in the shallow place between the whirlpool and
the old Corral, and the Nature-built stockade became a peaceful spot,
specially ordained by Providence, the Sunrise Freshmen claimed,
as a picnic ground for their autumn holiday. At least the young
folk for whom Professor Burgess was acting as chaperon took it so,
and reveled in the right.

Interest in Greek had greatly increased in Sunrise with the advent
of the handsome young Harvard man, and his desired seclusion
for profound research had not yet been fully realized.
Types for study were plentiful, however, especially the type
of the presumptuous young fellow who dared to admire
Elinor Wream. By divine right she was the most popular girl
in Sunrise, which pleased Professor Burgess up to a certain point.
That point was Victor Burleigh. The silent antagonism between
these two daily grew stronger; why, neither one could have told
up to this holiday.

The day had been perfect--the weather, the dinner, the company, the woodland--
even the amber light in the sky softening the glow as the afternoon slipped
down toward twilight in the sheltered old Corral.