But this is a case where your going camping will be worth more to us all than anything else that five dollars would buy.

Besides, think how disappointed your friends would be over not having their leader." "I appreciate your mother's feelings so much, lad," went on Mr.
Prescott, "that I forbid you to spend your remaining money on anything for your mother.

She has had her greatest happiness in knowing that you spent half of the first considerable sum of money you ever had in buying something for her.

That is as far as you can go.

Illness alone preventing, Dick, you'll go camping, and you'll pay your full share into the camping fund.