He had come to see that there was a world different from that in which he had lived,--that his friend Harlan was of that world,--and that the key to that world was knowledge. And knowledge, he knew, could be obtained only by hard labour. Was it worth the effort?
That was the question Vasco asked himself as he stood before his father.
To his credit be it said that his answer was the right one.
"I am glad of the chance," at last he told his father. "You may be sure that I shall try to make the best of it."
Let it be said here that this opportunity to go to school was a result of the formation of the new republic of Panama. One of the provisions of its constitution is: "Primary instruction shall be compulsory, and, when public, shall be free. There shall also be schools of arts and trades."
Monday morning Vasco and his sister Inez together started for school. To them, thus far, the institution was but a name, vague in its meaning, but full of great possibilities.
May we not well leave our little Panama cousin right here, as he stands on the threshold of a new life, under the folds of a new flag, with a new ambition and an earnest purpose spurring him on to attain to a higher and better life than he has ever known?
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