“Oh, yes! I want to continue my education,” said Andy.
“You know enough already for a poor boy.”
“Thank you for the compliment!”
“You’d better get a place somewhere to work.”
“Thank you! But, as I propose to go to college, I shall go back to the academy.”
“Go to college! How can you go to college? Why, you haven’t a cent!”
“I can’t stop to explain, Herbert. But you’ll hear before long.”
Herbert did hear, and so did the whole village, that Andy had brought back with him a rich uncle, who was credited with being worth fifty thousand dollars.
We know that this is not true, but rumor is prone to exaggerate the extent of a man’s fortune.
It was, moreover, reported—and this on good authority—that Andy was to be his uncle’s heir.