So, by wide detour, we came at last to St. Louis. There Barreau and Jessie were married, and departed thence upon their honeymoon. When their train had pulled out, I went with Bolton back to his office in the bank. He seated himself in the very chair he had occupied the day I came and saddled the burden of my affairs upon him. He cocked his feet up on the desk, lighted a cigar and leaned back. “Well, Robert,” he finally broke into my meditations, “how about this school question? Have you decided where you’re going to try for a B. A.? And when? What about it?” “I can take up college any time,” I responded. “Just now—well, I’m going to the ranch. A season in the cow camps will teach me something; and I would like to run the business just as my father did. I don’t think I’ll slip back so that I can’t take up study again. Anyway, the schools have no monopoly of knowledge; there’s a wonderful lot of things, I’ve discovered, that a fellow has to teach himself.” He surveyed me in silence a few minutes, his cigar pointed rakishly aloft, his eyes half shut. Then he took the weed between his thumb and forefinger and delivered himself of this sapient observation: “You’ll do, Bob. As a matter of fact, the North made a man of you.” I made no answer to that. I could not help reflecting, a trifle bitterly, that there were penalties attached to the attaining of manhood—in my case, at least. THE END. SPECIAL STANDARD 12MOS Bound in cloth. Jacket printed in colors An Old Fashioned Girl (_Louisa May Alcott_) Black Beauty (_Anna Sewell_) Children of the Abbey (_Roche_) Child’s History of England (_Charles Dickens_) Christmas Stories (_Charles Dickens_) Dog of Flanders, A (_Ouida_) East Lynne (_Mrs. Henry Wood_) Elsie Dinsmore (_Martha Finley_) Hans Brinker (_Mary Mapes Dodge_) Heidi (_Johanna Spyri_) Helen’s Babies (_John Habberton_) Ishmael (_E. D. E. N. Southworth_) Island of Appledore (_Aldon_) Ivanhoe (_Sir Walter Scott_) Kidnapped (_Robert Louis Stevenson_) King Arthur and His Knights (_Retold_) Last Days of Pompeii (_Lytton_) Life of Kit Carson (_Edward S. Ellis_) Little King, The (_Charles Major_) Little Lame Prince (_Miss Mulock_) Little Minister, The (_J. M. Barrie_) Little Men (_Louisa May Alcott_) Little Women (_Louisa May Alcott_) Oliver Twist (_Charles Dickens_) Pilgrim’s Progress (_John Bunyan_) Pinocchio (_C. Collodi_) Prince of the House of David (_Rev. J. H. Ingraham_) Robin Hood (_Retold_) Robinson Crusoe (_Daniel DeFoe_) Self Raised (_E. D. E. N. Southworth_) Sketch Book (_Washington Irving_) St. Elmo (_Augusta J. Evans-Wilson_) Swiss Family Robinson (_Wyss_) Tale of Two Cities (_Charles Dickens_) Three Musketeers, The (_Alexander Dumas_) Tom Brown at Oxford (_Thomas Hughes_) Tom Brown’s School Days (_Thomas Hughes_) Treasure Island (_Robert Louis Stevenson_)