"
Warner smiled and put his beloved book in his pocket.
"No, boys," he said, "you won't take it away from me, but as soon as this
war is over I shall advance from it to studies of a somewhat similar
nature, but much higher in character, and so difficult that solving them
will afford a pleasure keener and more penetrating than anything else I
know."
"What is your greatest ambition, Warner?" asked Pennington. "Do you,
like all the rest of us, want to be President of the United States?"
"Not for a moment. I've already been in training several years to be
president of Harvard University. What higher place could mortal ask?
None, because there is none to ask for."
"I can understand you, George," said Dick. "My great-grandfather became
the finest scholar ever known in the West. There was something of the
poet in him too. He had a wonderful feeling for nature and the forest.
He had a remarkable chance for observation as he grew up on the border,
and was the close comrade in the long years of Indian fighting of Henry
Ware, who was the greatest governor of Kentucky.
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