“I guess that depends on whether he gets track of anything new. After he comes back we’re going to Chicago to see–Mother.”
“Oh, I am so glad. It will make you feel a lot better to have a good visit with them all.”
“Yes, and he told me I might buy back the old home for her if she wants it–if I’d only known last week, she needn’t have sold the place. And the Captain–Father–says he will give me some money to put out at interest so she’ll have enough to live on comfortably. He says he owes her and Father a debt he can never repay for bringing me up.”
Chicken Little was thoughtful. “Sherm, he seems to have plenty of money, maybe you can go to college and to the Beaux Arts, too.”
“He said I could have all the education I wanted.”
“Will you go to college next year?”
“Yep.”
“O dear, it will be awful here unless Mother lets me go to Centerville.”
“Don’t fret, she is going to.”
“How do you know?”