He was face to face with Philip Scudder, his old-time enemy, who had reached the end of his rope at last!
But, in the hour of victory, Frank gave little heed to those who had made his path to this present success a hard and stormy one.
He was successful!
As a playwright and as an actor he had won the palm of victory, the future seemed to promise all the rewards his energy and enterprise deserved.
He had started out from college with the determination to win wealth and fame. He had left the scenes of his early triumphs and first misfortunes, with the firm purpose to return honored and enriched by his own labors.
Now he was on the eve of accomplishing that purpose.
And as he looked into the future, the lines of will power and determination that had always marked his handsome countenance grew firmer, as he murmured:
“I will myself be ‘True Blue!’ Come what may, let my paths for the next few months be as untoward as they ever have been, difficulties shall but act as a spur to me in my purpose. For I shall be, soon, I hope, once more a son of ‘Old Eli.’”
THE END.
No. 41 of The Merriwell Series, entitled “Frank Merriwell’s Prosperity,” by Burt L. Standish, shows our hero as a successful playwright, and on a fair way to fame and fortune.