"
"My nephew," said 'Zekiel, "thinks a lot of your boy and wants him to
go to college with him."
"But I haven't got the money to pay his way," said Mr. Chripp.
"My nephew has plenty of money, and if he's willing to help your boy
along in the world there's nobody to object that I know of."
So it was arranged that Tom Chripp should go to the preparatory
school and college with Quincy, the latter to pay the expenses of
both. "'Twas a lucky day for Tom that sent that Sawyer boy to school
in Cottonton," said Mr. Chripp to his wife.
"It'll be the making of Tom," he added, and the happy mother thought
so too.
When Mr. Strout heard of it, he remarked to his partner Mr. Maxwell,
"More of the arrogance of wealth. If I was a young man like Tom
Chripp I'd make my own way in the world."
Hiram swallowed some smoke, coughed, and then replied: "Probably he
will, when he gits his eddikation. Money makes the mare go now as it
always has, Obadiah, an' you an' me can't stop it."
"Like father, like son, I guess, Hiram. His father used to enjoy
throwing his money away an' the son's goin' to sail in the same boat.
I shouldn't be surprised if he came back to town some day and licked
somebody jest to be like his father."
"I shouldn't nuther," said Hiram as he began putting up an order for
the Hawkins House.
While Quincy was attending the public schools, Mrs.
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