h.Lavish he may have been in later years,but if he was it was with the money for which those who knew him best knew how very hard he had worked.

In a general way,I cannot remember that our life as boys differed in any essential from that of other boys.My brother went to the Episcopal Academy and his weekly report never failed to fill the whole house with an impenetrable gloom and ever-increasing fears as to the possibilities of his future.

At school and at college Richard was,to say the least,an indifferent student.And what made this undeniable fact so annoying,particularly to his teachers,was that morally he stood so very high.To "crib,"to lie,or in any way to cheat or to do any unworthy act was,I believe,quite beyond his understanding.Therefore,while his constant lack of interest in his studies goaded his teachers to despair,when it came to a question of stamping out wrongdoing on the part of the student body he was invariably found aligned on the side of the faculty.Not that Richard in any way resembled a prig or was even,so far as I know,ever so considered by the most reprehensible of his fellow students.He was altogether too red-blooded for that,and I believe the students whom he antagonized rather admired his chivalric point of honor even if they failed to imitate it.As a schoolboy he was aggressive,radical,outspoken,fearless,usually of the opposition and,indeed,often the sole member of his own party.Among the students at the several schools he attended -->>

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