BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

CONTENTS

I.[Farewell to Rosewood]1
II.[A Gentleman and a Scholar]22
III.[Hostilities]36
IV.[Friendships]56
V.[The Return]73
VI.[Probation]91
VII.[Blindness]108
VIII.[Wallace’s Examination]123
IX.[David’s Enlightenment]137
X.[Mr. Dean provides for the Future]151
XI.[The Family Migration]169
XII.[The New Neighbor]183
XIII.[Hero Worship]196
XIV.[Anti-Climax]218
XV.[The Torn Page]231
XVI.[Lester and David]242
XVII.[The First Marshal]256
XVIII.[Relinquishment]278
XIX.[Attainment]294

ILLUSTRATIONS

[“They thought maybe you’d rather be alone”]Frontispiece
[“How did you find the examinations?”]30
[Tackled a runner in the open field and got a wrenched ankle]70
[“Oh!” cried David. He clasped Mr. Dean’s hand. “It—it can’t be serious”]114