“New York!” exclaimed Frank. “That’s the place of opportunities. And say, Ned, I’ve got a scheme!” and his eyes twinkled.
“What is it?” asked the younger brother.
“Tell you later,” was the answer. “If it works we may be able to see Uncle Phil again soon.”
“I’m with you on anything like that!” Ned cried.
There being nothing else for them to do under the peculiar and strange circumstances, the two boys prepared to shift for themselves.
CHAPTER V—IN NEW YORK
Events now began to move rapidly for our two heroes, thus left to their own resources, and at an age when they were not very well fitted to battle with the world. And they were all the more unfitted on account of the life they had previously led.
They had always been well supplied with money, and they had never had to worry about where the next meal was coming from, nor to consider what they should wear. They gave orders to their tailor for suits, and their uncle, as a generous father might have done, footed the bills. It was the same way with their college expenses.
“But I guess this is the end of college,” remarked Frank, as he and his brother were each packing a small valise.
“It looks like it,” Ned agreed. “Yet, maybe it will do us good to shift for ourselves.”