Finally poor Gunn, after holding out as long as he could, had laid down his arms, as all soldiers must do sooner or later, and Gordon applied for the position.

The old squire remembered the straight, broad-shouldered boy with his father's eyes and also remembered the debt he owed him, and with the vision of a stern-faced man with eyes of flame riding quietly at the head of his men across a shell-ploughed field, he wrote to Gordon to come.
"If he's got half of his daddy in him he'll straighten 'em out," he said.
So, Gordon became a school-teacher.
"I know no better advice to give you," said General Keith to Gordon, on bidding him good-by, "than to tell you to govern yourself, and you will be able to govern them.

'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.'" During the years in which Gordon Keith was striving to obtain an education as best he might, Ferdy Wickersham had gone to one of the first colleges of the land.

It was the same college which Norman Wentworth was attending.

Indeed, Norman's being there was the main reason that Ferdy was sent there.