"Anybody that can accomplish the work you do at home, and hold your record at the academy, stands an excellent chance." Sandy thought so, too, but he tried to be modest.

"If it'll be in me, it will come out," he said with suppressed triumph as he swung his books across his shoulder and started home.
Martha's eyes followed him wistfully, and she hoped for a backward look before he turned in at the door.

But he was absorbed in sailing a broomstick across Aunt Melvy's pathway, causing her to drop her basket and start after him in hot pursuit.
That evening the judge glanced across the table with great satisfaction at Sandy, who was apparently buried in his Vergil.

The boy, after all, was a student; he was justifying the money and time that had been spent upon him; he was proving a credit to his benefactor's judgment and to his knowledge of human nature.
"Would ye mind telling me a word that rhymes with lance ?" broke in Sandy after an hour of absorbed concentration.
"Pants," suggested the judge.

But he woke up in the night to wonder again what part of Vergil Sandy had been studying.
"How about the scholarship ?" he asked the next day of Mr.Moseley, the principal of the academy.
Mr.Moseley pursed his lips and considered the matter ponderously.