I will see that your allowance
comes to you regular, including enough for all household bills and pay
for the hired help and so on. If you need any extras at any time let
me know and, if they seem to me right and proper, I will send money for
them. You will stay where you are, Caroline, and Stevie must go back to
college right away. Tell him I say so, and if he does not I shall begin
reducing his allowance according as I wrote him. He will understand what
I mean. I guess that is all until I send you my address and any other
sailing orders that seem necessary to me then. And, Caroline, I want you
and Stevie to feel that I am your anchor to windward, and when you get
in a tight place, if you ever do, you can depend on me. Last night's
talk has no bearing on that whatever. Good-by, then, until my next.
"ELISHA WARREN."
Stephen read this screed to the end, then crumpled it in his fist and
threw it angrily on the floor.
"The nerve!" he exclaimed. "He seems to think I'm a sailor on one of his
ships, to be ordered around as he sees fit. I'll go back to college when
I'm good and ready--not before."
Caroline shook her head. "Oh, no!" she said. "You must go to-day. He's
right, Steve; it's the thing for you to do. He and I were agreed as to
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