the best. Don't trouble yourself too much about the matter. Perhaps it
will all come out right in a year or so. In the meantime I think I
shall find it not unpleasant to work for a year if you will let me
select the kind of business I am to follow.

"I will make the money you sent me do for the present, and will send
you my term bills as you desire. You can depend upon my settling up as
cheap as possible, though I confess I have not hitherto been nearly as
economical as I might have been. Now that I know it is necessary, you
shall have no reason to complain of me.

"Your affectionate ward,
WALTER SHERWOOD."

"What do you think of that, Gates?" asked Walter, giving the letter to
his chum to read.

"Excellent! It shows the right spirit."

"I am glad you think so."

"Do you know, Walter, I think I have more occasion for regret than
you? I must bid farewell to my room-mate and this pleasant room."

"To your room-mate, yes, but not necessarily to the room."

"I shall have to furnish it in very different style for the present. I
am not sure that I can afford a carpet. The luxury of my present
surroundings, I am afraid, will spoil me for humble quarters."