"O, Mort, this is all your work!"
"No,'tain't; it's all old Perk's. I only came to tell the news."
"But you were the means of it."
"No; it was that good Being whom you, after so many years of prosperity, couldn't afford to think about or thank till he sent the river to put you in mind of him."
"How can I ever thank you enough?"
"Do you think a man ought to be thanked for helping himself?"
"No, of course not."
"Are not you and I one? Didn't you say only last night we were one, and that there never was a shadow between us? What are you talking about?"
"I can't understand how they can wait my leisure. There must of course be a definite time when the term begins."
"Certainly; Perk will send you a catalogue; but he will take the school till you come. I told him I knew something about your affairs, and thought it doubtful if you could come at the first part of the term."