had gotten into trouble at the University and was leaving for New York in a few days; and that he had decided to accompany his cousin.
They would be better together. They had saved enough money to keep them until they could find something to do. He was sorry that this would prevent him from spending his summer holiday in Coulton, but if all went well—as he was sure it would—he could be home for a happy Christmas.
"Frank can take my place at the University," he concluded. "His success will make up with father for my failure. I intend to do better where I am going. I will think of you and write to you every day. Address me, for the present, at the General Post Office, New York City."
He did not add any messages of affection; he felt that in his present mood they would be hypocritical.
He wrote to his aunt that Conroy—as she would probably hear from Conroy himself—was leaving the University on account of a breach of college discipline for which he had been blamed, although he was by no means the ringleader in it; that he himself had decided he could not afford to waste three years more on his education; and that they were going to make a start together in New York.
No doubt it would seem very foolish to her, but Conroy was afraid to go home and face Uncle John. For his own part, he had quarrelled with his father at Christmas about refusing to study law, and in order to avoid further trouble he was taking his affairs into his own hands. They were both well supplied with money;
