his class had the list been turned upside down.

CHAPTER II.

JIMMY WILL ACCEPT A POSITION.

Following his graduation he went to New York to visit with one of his

classmates for a short time before returning home. He was a very

self-satisfied Jimmy, nor who can wonder, since almost from his

matriculation there had been constantly dinned into his ears the

plaudits of his fellow students. Jimmy Torrance had been the one big

outstanding feature of each succeeding class from his freshman to his

senior year, and as a junior and senior he had been the acknowledged

leader of the student body and as popular a man as the university had

ever known.

To his fellows, as well as to himself, he had been a great success--the

success of the university--and he and they saw in the future only

continued success in whatever vocation he decided to honor with his

presence. It was in a mental attitude that had become almost habitual

with him, and which was superinduced by these influences, that Jimmy

approached the new life that was opening before him. For a while he

would play, but in the fall it was his firm intention to settle down to

some serious occupation, and it was in this attitude that he opened a

letter from his father--the first that he had received since his

graduation.

The letter was written on the letterhead of the Beatrice Corn Mills,

Incorporated, Beatrice, Nebraska, and in the upper left-hand corner, in

small type, appeared "James Torrance, Sr., President and General

Manager," and this is what he read:

Dear Jim

You have graduated--I didn't think you would--with honors in

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