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And when Ti nose and ht hook to sto and sobbing through his lacerated lips--was no tis, with his two fists, it was either he or Tiht there, in sweat and blood and iron of soul, that Young Dick learned how not to lose a losing fight It had been uphill from the first blow, but he stuck it out until in the end it was agreed that neither could best the other, although this agreeround in nausea and exhaustion and with streae and defiance at each other After that, they became chums and between them ruled the schoolyard

Lucky Richard died the sa Dick was thirteen years old, with twenty million dollars, and without a relative in the world to trouble him He was the master of a palace of servants, a steam yacht, stables, and, as well, of a summer palace down the Peninsula in the nabob colony at Menlo One thing, only, was he burdened with: guardians

On a su library, he attended the first session of his board of guardians There were three of theal, all business comrades of his father Dick's ih they ment, their boyhood was too far behind them Besides that, it was patent that him, the particular boy they were so much concerned with, they did not understand at all Furthermore, in his own sure way he decided that he was the one person in the world fitted to knoas best for hi speech, to which Dick listened with alert and beco his head whenever he was directly addressed or appealed to Messrs Davidson and Slocum also had their say and were treated with equal consideration Aht raentleht man

When they were quite done, Dick took it upon hiht it over," he announced, "and first of all I shall go traveling"