And when, weeks later, the lame boy was able to return to school, Keith had no firmer friend in all the Ridge region than Dave Dennison, and Dave had made a mental progress which, perhaps, he would not have made in as many months at school, for he had received an impulse to know and to be something more than he was.
He would show Phrony who he was.
It was fine to Gordon to feel that he was earning his own living.

He was already making his way in the world, and often from this first rung of the ladder the young teacher looked far up the shining steep to where Fame and Glory beckoned with their radiant hands.

He would be known.

He would build bridges that should eclipse Stevenson's.

He would be like Warren Hastings, and buy back the home of his fathers and be a great gentleman.
The first pay that he received made him a capitalist.