All of them had access to the same room with Superintendent Scott and myself, and they availed themselves of it.

This was a different world, indeed, from that to which I had been accustomed.

I was not happy about it.

I ate, necessarily, of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil for the first time.

But there were still the sweet and pure surroundings of home, where nothing coarse or wicked ever entered, and besides, there was the world in which I dwelt with my companions, all of them refined young men, striving to improve themselves and become respected citizens.