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She was a good fellow clear through and had a smile that illuminated her plain face like a torchlight parade . Of course , after you get out of school you learn that beauty is only skin deep and seldom affects the brain ; but this is a wonderful discovery for a college boy to make when there are so many raving beauties about him that he has to take a nap in the afternoon in order to dream about all of them . At any rate , we took Martha to everything that came along , one of us or another , and before a month we did n't have to pretend very much to scrap for her dances , even if you did have to lug her around the room by main strength -- she was as heavy on her feet as a motor-bus . April came and the first baseball game with it , and Saunders , our pitcher , managed to draw a thirty-day sentence for stealing a steam roller one noon and racing off down the avenue with a fat cop in pursuit . We nearly fell dead once more when Saunders came walking into chapel three days later . He had been released by Judge Scroggs with a warning never under any circumstances to do anything of any sort at any time any more , and been assured that he was nothing more than hangman 's meat . But he had been released !