It was an absurd question to ask you." "Nevertheless, you have made me very curious." "I will tell you more some other time; not now.

Tell me about your own plans.

What decision have you come to ?" Waymark professed to have formed no plan whatever.

This was not strictly true.

For some months now, ever and again, as often indeed as he had felt the burden of his schoolwork more than usually intolerable, his thoughts had turned to the one person who could be of any assistance to him, and upon whom he had any kind of claim; that was Abraham Woodstock, his father's old friend.