"In that case you could then come on and join me, so I'll take care to let you have my address. But there, John, I hope you'll be more successful than I have been."
"You don't mean to say that you have already proposed and been refused by Mary?" asked John anxiously.
"No, no! not by her, but Jessie Russell."
"Oh, she's going to have Fellows! Didn't you know that?"
"I did not know it, but I thought so," he replied, as a fierce light gleamed in his eyes.
"You've kept your little affair very quiet," was John's sly rejoinder.
"It's not a pleasant experience to talk about," he added. "It makes, however, another reason why I am not sorry at having to leave the place."
"I'm sorry for you, Charley, my boy; but I think she'll get a good husband in Fellows."
"I'm not so sure about that. My advice to you is, be careful about him."
"Why! what do you mean?"