All consented to do this, and were then removed to their several prisons; and four days hence will this act of penance be performed, after which our friends will be restored to us and to the church once more." "And Anthony consented with the rest ?" asked Freda, with pale lips and wistful eyes.
"He did." Arthur looked her full in the face as he spoke.
"Anthony might perchance have refused compliance, had it not been for me, Freda.

If thou hast any blame for him in this matter, let it rest upon my head, not upon his." "Thou didst persuade him ?" "I did.

I would do so again.

Anthony is young, hot headed, impulsive, rash.

Whatever he may grow to in the future, whatever convictions he may then hold, he is not fit yet to be a leader of men, to take up an attitude of defiance to the laws and statutes of the university--leaving the church out of the question--to ruin his career in an impulse which may not be a lasting one.