My new guardian, Mr. Bundy, goes to Chicago on business [he wrote] and I am to go with him. I don't know how long we shall be away. I shall be well provided for, and expect to have a good time. I may write you from the West. Remember me to Carrie, and believe me to be your affectionate friend,
Oliver Conrad.
"So Oliver is going to Chicago," said Frank Dudley to Roland Kenyon, on the afternoon of the same day.
Roland looked surprised.
"How do you know?" he asked.
Frank showed him the passage quoted above.
"He doesn't send his love to you," said Frank mischievously.
"I don't care for his love," returned Roland, tossing his head. "I'm glad he is going to a distance."
"Why?"
"So he needn't disgrace the family."