[The Red Cross Girl by Richard Harding Davis]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Cross Girl CHAPTER 2 13/60
I've supported you through college and you've failed to deliver the goods.
Now you deliver them next fall, or you can support yourself." "That will be all right," said Peter humbly; "I'll pass next fall." "I'm going to make sure of that," said Hallowell senior.
"To-morrow you will take those history books that you did not open, especially Gilman's 'Rise and Fall,' which it seems you have not even purchased, and you will travel for the entire summer with a private tutor...." Peter, who had personally conducted the foot-ball and base-ball teams over half of the Middle States and daily bullied and browbeat them, protested with indignation.
"WON'T travel with a private tutor!" "If I say so," returned Hallowell senior grimly, "you'll travel with a governess and a trained nurse, and wear a strait jacket.
And you'll continue to wear it until you can recite the history of Turkey backward. And in order that you may know it backward--and forward you will spend this summer in Turkey--in Constantinople--until I send you permission to come home." "Constantinople!" yelled Peter.
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