So I did." Clint pondered that.

He wondered if he would be so complaisant if his parents made a like request, and greatly feared he wouldn't.
"You must have hated to do it," he said admiringly.
Chase nodded.

"I did.

But I argued it like this.

Dad was paying a lot of good money for my education, and he hasn't very much of it, either, and if he didn't want to risk the investment I hadn't any right to ask him to.