He didn't do right and he'll have
penalty to pay. Eileen is developing into a lovable and truly
beautiful woman, but she has not the intellect, nor the
education, nor the impulse to stimulate a man's mental processes
and make him outdo himself the way Marian will. John will
probably never know it, but he will have to do his own
stimulating; he will have to vision life for himself. He will
have to find his high hill and climb it with Eileen riding
securely on his shoulders. It isn't really the pleasantest thing
in the world, it isn't truly the thing I wanted to do this
summer--helping them out--but it has seemed to be the work at
hand, the thing Daddy probably would have wanted me to do, so
it's up to me to do all I can for them, just as I did all I could
for Donald. One thing I shall always be delighted about. With
my own ears I heard the pronouncement: Donald had the Jap
beaten; he was at the head of his class before Oka Sayye was
eliminated. The Jap knew it. His only chance lay in getting rid
of his rival. Donald can take the excellent record he has made
in this race to start on this fall when he commences another
battle against some other man's brain for top honors in his
college."
"Will he start with the idea that he wants to be an honor man?"
Linda laughed outright.
"I think," she said, "his idea was that if he were one of fifty
or one hundred leading men it would be sufficient, but I insisted
that if he wanted to be first with me, he would have to be first
in his school work.
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