CHAPTER IX.
LOVERS AND LOVERS.
Albert Charlton had little money, and he was not a man to remain idle.
He was good in mathematics, and did a little surveying now and then; in fact, with true democratic courage, he turned his hand to any useful employment.

He did not regard these things as having any bearing on his career.

He was only waiting for the time to come when he could found his Great Educational Institution on the virgin soil of Minnesota.

Then he would give his life to training boys to live without meat or practical jokes, to love truth, honesty, and hard lessons; he would teach girls to forego jewelry and cucumber-pickles, to study physiology, and to abhor flirtations.

Visionary, was he?
You can not help smiling at a man who has a "vocation," and who wants to give the world a good send-off toward its "goal." But there is something noble about it after all.