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exit, the foe I had thought EATen!
Choked with dismay I cried, "Flunk you!"
"And Pass you, sir!" Bray exclaimed, as though joyously. "Pass you to the end of terms! Take these, Grand Tutor of the Western Campus, and go to the head of your class!"
He pressed into my hand what turned out to be my ID-card and Assignment-list.
"You admit you're a fraud!" I challenged him. Outside, the crowd commenced to chant again:"Give us the Goat! All the way with Bray!" Knees to knees now on the floor, facing each other across the exit, we shouldered against the outward-pressing waves. "How come you're not EATen?"
"I'mnot a fraud, sir!" he said happily, and even wiped an eye. "Oh, pass you,pass you!" He owed his preservation, he declared, to the fact of WESCAC's having chosen him, some time past, for the work now all but accomplished: the role of proph-prof, foil, and routed antigiles. As John the Bursar had been necessary to declare Enos Enoch's matriculation and administer to him the rites of enrollment, so he Bray
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