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CHAPTER II. LINN’S ERRAND TO THE INDIAN SCHOOL. The unfortunate quarrel between Linn and Bruce was not healed up, so far as putting the lads on their former intimate terms was concerned. «Bruce made a feeble effort at reconciliation, admitting himself to have been in the wrong, and Linn was only too glad to meet him half way. But things were never the same after that, and a wider estrangement—which Linn did his best to prevent —grew between the two friends. Steve Halsey, who had always disliked Linn and rec- ognized a kindred spirit in Bruce, was mainly to blame for the coolness. He played his cards well and cun- ningly, and as a result Bruce was gradually drawn into the fast set of the college, and his old appetite for dissi- pation and bad habits got a strong hold on him again. Captain Cameron knew nothing of this, for he was a very busy man and had time to think of nothing else but the management of the Indian school. It was well known in the college, however, that Bruce was dropping lower in his class, and that he spent his evenings with Steve Halsey’s set, playing billiards and pool, drinking and gambling in one or another of his new companion’s rooms, or prowling about the town in search of mischief at late hours. Linn remonstrated with him from time to time, but his influence now was of no avail, and he almost lost hope of reclaiming his friend. He could rarely find a chance to talk to Bruce alone, for Steve Halsey stuck to him Eomicbooks.Go