I kind of thought you'd like to have him here." "Oh, I should like _that_! But will he come?
Has he written you ?" "Hey?
Yes, I cal'late he'll be on deck.

He's--er--yes, he's written me." He smiled as he answered.

As a matter of fact, the correspondence between Stephen and himself had been lengthy and voluminous on the part of the former, and brief and business-like on his own.

The boy, on his return to college, had found "conditions" awaiting him, and the amount of hard work involved in their clearance was not at all to his taste.
He wrote his guardian before the first week was over, asserting that the whole business was foolishness and a waste of time.

He should come home at once, he said, and he notified the captain that such was his intention.