"Then you'll leave Brill for good?" questioned Nellie.

"I think so. I can't be breaking in on my college course every now and
then as I have been doing, and pass my examinations. More than that, I
begin to believe that I was not cut out for a college man. I am like
Dick; I prefer a business career rather than a professional one. It is
Sam who is going to make the learned one of the family."

"Oh, come now, Tom! Don't pile it on!" pleaded the younger brother.
And yet he looked greatly pleased; and Grace looked pleased, too.

"But if you leave Brill, you won't be able to get here very often,
Tom," remarked Nellie, wistfully.

"That is true. But if I have to go to New York, why can't you go,
too?"

"Oh, Tom!"

"Well, that is what Dora did when Dick gave up his college career. I
think the folks understand----"

Just then a bell in the tower of the main seminary building began to
clang loudly. At the first stroke both girls started.

"There goes the first bell!" cried Grace. "We must go."

"Oh, hang the bell!" muttered Tom, and then, as Grace ran towards the
building, with Sam beside her, he once more caught Nellie by the hand.