When the time came for going East both West and Joel were impatient to be on the way.

Mrs.West accompanied the boys, and the little party reached the old, elm-embowered college town four days before the opening of the term.

Agreeably to the request of the football captain, Joel reported on the field in football togs the day after reaching town, and was given a cordial welcome.

Captain Button was not there, but returned with the Varsity squad from a week's practice at a neighboring village two days later.
Mrs.West meanwhile toiled ceaselessly at furnishing the boys' room, and the result was a revelation to Joel, to whom luxurious lounges and chairs, and attractive engravings, were things hitherto admired and longed for from a distance.

And then, bidding a farewell to the lads, Outfield's mother took her departure for home, and they were left practically rulers of all they surveyed, and, if the truth were told, a trifle sobered by the suddenness of their plunge into independence.
And one warm September day the college bell rang for chapel and the two lads had begun a new, important, and to them exciting chapter of their lives..