Guy laughed.
“I’ll think of it, father,” he said. “I am going to make a call on one of my schoolmates, and will leave you to do your writing undisturbed.”
The schoolmate with whom Guy spent his evening was Tom Todd, a boy of about his own age. He had a sister some ten years older than himself, who was a teacher in one of the Bayport schools. She, as well as Tom, liked the bright son of the minister, and he received a cordial greeting from both.
“So you have got through school life, Guy?” she said.
“Yes, Miss Todd.”
“And you are fitted for college? Does your father think of Harvard for you?”
“He would like to have me go, but there are two objections in the way.”
“What are they?”
“First, he can’t afford the expense.”
“What is the second?”