Kavanagh. He can't afford to buy a pair."

Tommy was the son of a poor widow, and was very much pleased with the
gift, which Phil conveyed to him just before supper.

Just after supper he took his gun and the key of his boat over to Reuben
Gordon, who thereupon gave him the money agreed upon.

"Shall I tell Mrs. Brent I am going away?" Phil said to himself, "or
shall I leave a note for her?"

He decided to announce his resolve in person. To do otherwise would seem
too much like running away, and that he had too much self-respect to do.

So in the evening, after his return from Reuben Gordon's, he said to
Mrs. Brent:

"I think I ought to tell you that I'm going away to-morrow."

Mrs. Brent looked up from her work, and her cold gray eyes surveyed Phil
with curious scrutiny.

"You are going away!" she replied. "Where are you going?"

"I think I shall go to New York."

"What for?"

"Seek my fortune, as so many have done before me."