The Liar
I HAVE had to do with almost every variety of undergraduate during the last twenty years—the coarse, the illiterate, the sullen, the impertinent, the vicious, and the dissipated—I can do business with any but the liar. I do not know on what ground to meet him.
I was talking to Brown with regard to his study list. "Have you turned in your change slip as you were asked to do last week?" I inquired.
"Yes," was his quick reply. "I gave it to the Dean on the day I saw you."
"I will just speak to him about it," I continued, reaching for the telephone receiver, "and be sure that everything is all right." Brown dropped his head for a moment, but as I called the number, he spoke.
