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A Separate Peace.pdf - Southwest High School

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94I believed you," he added hurriedly, "but you're the nervous type, you know, and I thoughtmaybe your imagination got a little inflamed up there in Vermont. I thought he might not bequite as mixed up as you made out." Finny's face tried to prepare me for what came next."Then I saw him myself."I turned incredulously. "You saw Leper?""I saw him here this morning, after chapel. He was—well, there's nothing inflamed aboutmy imagination and I saw Leper hiding in the shrubbery next to the chapel. I slipped out theside door the way I always do—to miss the rush—and I saw Leper and he must have seen me.He didn't say a damn word. He looked at me like I was a gorilla or something and then heducked into Mr. Carhart's office.""He must be crazy," I said automatically, and then my eyes involuntarily met Finny's. Weboth broke into sudden laughter."We can't do a damn thing about it," he said ruefully."I don't want to see him," I muttered. Then, trying to be more responsible, "Who else knowshe's here.""No one, I would think.""There's nothing for us to do, maybe Carhart or Dr. Stanpole can do something. We won'ttell anybody about it because . . . because they would just scare Leper, and he would scarethem.""Anyway," said Finny, "then I knew there was a real war on.""Yes, I guess it's a real war all right. But I liked yours a lot better.""So did I.""I wish you hadn't found out. What did you have to find out for!" We started to laugh again,with a half-guilty exchange of glances, in the way that two people who had gone on a giganticbinge when they were last together would laugh when they met again at the parson's tea."Well," he said, "you did a beautiful job in the Olympics.""And you were the greatest news analyst who ever lived.""Do you realize you won every gold medal in every Olympic event? No one's ever doneanything like that in history.""And you scooped every newspaper in the world on every story." The sun was doing anticsamong the million specks of dust hanging between us and casting a brilliant, unstable pool oflight on the floor. "No one's ever done anything like that before."

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