"Ma'am?"
"What are those words on your flag?"
Sam gave her a long, cold, mystic look, rose to his feet and left
the room with emphasis and dignity. For a moment she was puzzled.
But Sam's older brother was this year completing his education at
a university, and Mrs. Williams was not altogether ignorant of
the obligations of secrecy imposed upon some brotherhoods; so she
was able to comprehend Sam's silent withdrawal, and, instead of
summoning him back for further questions, she waited until he was
out of hearing and then began to laugh.
Sam's action was in obedience to one of the rules adopted, at his
own suggestion, as a law of the order. Penrod advocated it
warmly. From Margaret he had heard accounts of her friends in
college and thus had learned much that ought to be done. On the
other hand, Herman subscribed to it with reluctance, expressing a
decided opinion that if he and Verman were questioned upon the
matter at home and adopted the line of conduct required by the
new rule, it would be well for them to depart not only from the
room in which the questioning took place but from the house, and
hurriedly at that.
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