In particular,
Anthony, Sr., was prejudiced against a certain Higgins, who, of
course, was his son's boon companion, aid, and abettor. This young
gentleman was a lean, horse-faced senior, whose unbroken solemnity
of manner had more than once led strangers to mistake him for a
divinity student, though closer acquaintance proved him wholly
unmoral and rattle-brained. Mr. Higgins possessed a distorted
sense of humor and a crooked outlook upon life; while, so far as
had been discovered, he owned but two ambitions: one to whip a
policeman, the other to write a musical comedy. Neither seemed
likely of realization. As for the first, he was narrow-chested and
gangling, while a brief, disastrous experience on the college
paper had furnished a sad commentary upon the second.
Not to exaggerate, Darwin K. Anthony, the father, saw in the
person of Adelbert Higgins a budding criminal of rare precocity,
and a menace to his son; while to the object of his solicitude the
aforesaid criminal was nothing more than an entertaining
companion, whose bizarre disregard of all established rules of
right and wrong matched well with his own careless temper.
Higgins, moreover, was an ardent follower of athletics, revolving
like a satellite about the football stars, and attaching himself
especially to Kirk, who was too good-natured to find fault with an
honest admirer.
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