the boy was frightened.



CHAPTER 15. TO COLLEGE IN THE BLUEGRASS

As the school-master had foretold, there was no room at college for Jack.
Several times Major Buford took the dog home with him, but Jack would not
stay. The next morning the dog would turn up at the door of the dormitory
where Chad and the school-master slept, and as a last resort the boy had to
send Jack home. So, one Sunday morning Chad led Jack out of the town for
several miles, and at the top of a high hill pointed toward the mountains and
sternly told him to go home. And Jack, understanding that the boy was in
earnest, trotted sadly away with a placard around his neck:

I own this dog. His name is Jack. He is on his way to Kingdom Come. Please
feed him. Uncle Joel Turner will shoot any man who steels him. CHAD.

It was no little consolation to Chad to think that the faithful sheep-dog
would in no small measure repay the Turners for all they had done for him.
But Jack was the closest link that bound him to the mountains, and dropping
out of sight behind the crest of the hill, Chad crept to the top again and
watched Jack until he trotted out of sight, and the link was broken. Then
Chad went slowly and sorrowfully back to his room.

It was the smallest room in the dormitory that the school-master had chosen
for himself and Chad, and in it were one closet, one table, one lamp, two
chairs and one bed--no more. There were two windows in the little room--one
almost swept by the branches of a locust-tree and overlooking the brown-gray
sloping campus and the roofs and church-steeples of the town--the other