“By being Henry’s friend and adviser—perhaps, I may say, guardian—for, although you are about the same age, you are far wiser and more judicious.”
“I will certainly do the best I can for him, sir.”
During the next week the two boys left New York, and became pupils at Doctor Shelley’s private academy, at Elmwood—a pleasant country town not far from Long Island Sound—and there we bid them adieu.
THE END.