204 FTistory of Gutta-Percha Willie.

that they did not think of The people on the
other hand who want to be noble and good, begin
by taking the first thing that comes to their hand
and doing that right, and so they go on from one
thing to another, growing better and better.

In the same way, although it would have been
absurd in Willie to rack his brain for some scheme
by which to restore such a grand building as the
Priory, he could yet bethink himself that the
hundredth room did not come next the first, neither
did the third; the one after the first was the second,
and he might do something towards the existence
of that, .

He went out immediately after breakfast, and
began peering about the ruins to see where the
second room might be. To his delight he saw that,
with a little contrivance, it could be built on the
other side of the wall of Hector’s room.

He had plenty of money for it, his grannie’s
legacy not being. yet touched. He thought it all
over himself, talked it all over with his father, and
then consulted it all over with Spelman. The end
was, that without nearly spending his little store,
he had, before the-time came for his return to the
college, built another room.

As the garret was full of his grandmother's
furniture, nothing was easier than to fit it up—and
that very nicely too, It remained only to find an
occupant for it.