Prologue
_ Two young men met in front of the post-office of a small country town. They were of about the same age--eighteen--each was well dressed, comely, and apparently of good family； and each had an expression of face that would commend him to strangers, save that one of them, the larger of the two, had what is called a "bad eye"--that is, an eye showing just a little too much white above the iris. In the other‘s eye white predominated below the iris. The former is usually the index of violent though restrained temper； the latter of an intuitive, psychic disposition, with very little self-control. The difference in character so indicated may lead one person to the Presidency, another to the gallows. And--though no such results are promised--with similar divergence of path, of pain and pleasure, of punishment and reward, is this story concerned.
The two boys were schoolmates and friends, with never a quarrel since they had known each other； they had graduated together from

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