And you want to go at the work earnestly, too, for
you will be a man before you know it."
"It looks a long way off to me now," mused Theo.
"Such things always do; but time flies pretty fast. You will find
yourself in college the next thing you know; and after that you will
be beginning to plan your career. What are you going to be, Theo?"
"I don't know, sir," was the uncertain answer. "I'd just like to do
something that really needs to be done; something that people cannot
get on without."
"That is a splendid ambition," came heartily from Mr. Croyden. "I
thought perhaps you'd be thinking of taking up your father's job."
"I be a surgeon!" gasped Theo.
"Why not?"
"Oh, because I'd be no good at it," the boy said. "I should never
know what to do with sick people. I'd be scared to death. It seems to
me now that I would rather go into making something; but I do not just
know what."
"You want to be a business man, eh?"
"That is what I'd rather do."
"Humph!"
There was an interval of silence; then Mr. Croyden said:
"Well, if when you are through your education, Theo, we are out of
this war and you are still of the same mind, you come to me.
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