CHAPTER XXIV
LINK’S VISIT
Busy days followed. After the football game, the quarrel of Dunk and Andy, and their reconciliation, brought about so effectively by Ikey Stein, little of moment happened except the varsity football games, which Andy followed with devoted interest, hoping that by the next term he would be chosen for a place on the team.
The students settled down to hard work, with the closing of the outdoor sporting season, and there were days of hard study. Yale is no place for weak students, and Andy soon found that he must “toe the mark” in more senses than one. He had to give his days and some of his nights to “grinding.”
For some time Andy did not understand how Ikey had brought about the meeting of Dunk and himself—at least, he did not know how the peacemaker had induced Dunk to go to the park. But one day the latter explained.
Following the dramatic scene in Burke’s, Dunk had gone out. Not wishing to face Andy he had stayed at a hotel all night. In the morning, while he was remorseful and nearly ill, Ikey, the faithful, had sought him out, having in some way heard of the quarrel. Ikey was not given to frequenting Burke’s, but he had his own way of ferreting out news.
To Dunk he had gone, then, and had told much the same story he had related to Andy, giving it a different twist. And he had so worked on Dunk’s feelings, picturing how terribly Andy must feel, that finally Dunk had consented to go to the park.
“Well, I’m glad I did, old man!” said Dunk, clapping Andy on the back.
“And so am I. I’m only wondering whether Ikey faked that qlsob story’ or not.”
“What of it? It certainly did the business, all right.”