"That Sandy boy's a wonder," Blue Bonnet exclaimed. "I take back every uncomplimentary remark I ever made about him. Appearances are so deceiving."
"'All that glitters isn't gold,'" said Knight, looking like his uncle as he gravely quoted this ancient maxim.
"It's a pity it isn't,—Sandy would be a millionaire with that hair of his!" Blue Bonnet laughed.
"I mean 'handsome is as handsome does,'" said Knight, "—that isn't quite so dangerous a quotation. I expect to see Sandy President some day, or at least a senator."
"Can't you imagine the newspaper headings: 'Senator Red-top of Texas'—?" laughed Blue Bonnet.
"He's hoping to go East to college this fall," Knight remarked more seriously.
"It's queer," said Alec, "how all the Western boys long to go East and all the Eastern fellows think they're just made if they can come West. I'd like to trade him my chance at Harvard for his health and strength."
"Can't you arrange that trifling exchange for Alec?" Blue Bonnet asked Knight.
He shook his head. "Sandy won't take anybody's chances,—he's the sort that makes his own."
"Some of us aren't allowed to."