"Oh, I'll find something, dad. I'm not worryin' about that now."
"How would you like to study civil engineering?" Jess asked.
Eben looked at her with surprise, wondering whether he had heard aright. Then he smiled, somewhat wistfully.
"I mean it," Jess insisted. "Father is willing to send you to college, and pay all your expenses. Isn't it great?"
"Great!" Eben fairly shouted the word, weak though he was. "Send me to college to be a civil engineer! Say yer jist foolin', ain't ye?"
"Indeed I am not. Daddy is willing and ready to do all he can to help you, so there."
"But what am I to do?" the captain demanded. "If Eben goes to college, I'll be left alone on the 'Eb an' Flo.' Guess I might as well close up bizness, too."
"Oh, daddy will make that all right, Captain. We talked it over
