I have told you more now than I meant to, and you must be satisfied
with that. I'll have the boat, don't you be afraid."
The two boys were two of what were called the Hilltop boys, being
students at an Academy situated in the highlands of the Hudson on top
of a hill about five miles back from the river, as the crow flies, but
considerably more than that by the road.
Jack Sheldon was a universal favorite in the school, and although he
had been obliged to work to pay for his schooling at the start he was
not thought any the less of on that account.
Two or three strokes of fortune had given him sufficient money to
more than pay for his education, and to provide his widowed mother
with many extra comforts in addition, so that now he could give his
time to study and not be distracted by work.
He had long known the value of money, having learned it by experience,
and he was now averse to spending more than was necessary on things
that gave pleasure rather more than profit.
He would not let Dick Percival, who was the son of rich parents,
and had more money to spend than was really good for him, buy him a
motor-boat, nor would he spend too much money on one himself when he
would use it only for the smallest part of the year.
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