Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 55: what you’re looking at

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A STRANGE ENCOUNTER, — ee of a half-dozen ‘sophs’ before?” he retorted, dngeily. “You’re a set of cowards, every one of you.’ ~ Two of the students seized Mapleson by the arms, and he was forced from the room, muttering threats of ven- geance as he passed out. When Geoffrey was at length left alone, he closed and locked his door, and then sat down and fell into troubled thought. He was sure that he had made a. bitter and lasting enemy of the young man, and he regretted it, for Geofirey Huntress was one wholoved to be at peace with ail mankind ; but he could only wait patiently to see how the matter would end, and having reached this conclusion, he resumed his interrupted studies. But he could not put his mind upon them, for all at once the remarkable re- semblance between himself and the young Southerner be- gan to haunt him. Could it be possible that any of the same blood flowed in their veins? If so, how? Why was Everet Mapleson the favored son of a proud and wealthy father, while had been a poor, demented outcast, abandoned in the streets of a large city and left to-his fate. CHAPTER IX. A STRANGE ENCOUNTER. Several days went by, and Geoffrey heard nothing more either of or from the sophomores who had attempted to haze him Neither did he happen to meet any of them on his way to or from his recitations, and he hoped that the occur- rence would gradually be forgotten and occasion no more trouble. He did not mention it to any one, and he bore none of the actors any ill-will, for he well knew that hazing had been an established custom in many colleges, and that every freshman was liable to be subjected to the ordeal. But the affair was destined to be more serious, eventu- ally, than he imagined an occurrence of that kind could ever become. Young Mapleson realized, as soon as his passion began to cool somewhat, that he should be obliged to relinquish all thoughts of retaliation fora season, for none of his Gomicboo Ss. 3