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"You couldn't buy it for a thousand dollars," Professor Carey rejoined, thinking he had settled the an

"What is it?" Professor Carey demanded sharply

"It's not a thousand a week," Dick retorted as sharply "It's not five hundred a week, nor two-fifty a week--" He held up his hand to stall off interruption "You've just told me I couldn't buy a week of your ti to buy that week for two thousand Heavens!--I've only got so many years to live--"

"And you can buy years?" Professor Carey queried slyly

"Sure That's why I'm here I buy three years in one, and the week from you is part of the deal"

"But I have not accepted," Professor Carey laughed

"If the sum is not sufficient," Dick said stiffly, "why name the sum you consider fair"

And Professor Carey surrendered So did Professor Barsdale, head of the department of chemistry

Already had Dick taken his coaches in hs of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin After his bout with physics and chemistry he took his two coaches in literature and history into the Curry County hunting region of southwestern Oregon He had learned the trick from his father, and he worked, and played, lived in the open air, and did three conventional years of adolescent education in one year without straining himself He fished, hunted, swam, exercised, and equipped himself for the university at the same time And he made no mistake He knew that he did it because his father's twenty millions had invested him with mastery Money was a tool He did not over-rate it, nor under-rate it He used it to buy what he wanted

"The weirdest for up Dick's account for the year "Sixteen thousand for education, all iteun cartridges for his teachers"

"He passed the examinations just the sarowled Mr Davidson "My daughter's boy entered Belmont at the same time, and, if he's lucky, it will be two years yet before he enters the university"

"Well, all I've got to say," proclaimed Mr Crockett, "is that fro his oes"