Pipe Dreams - Illusion or Fantasy

Chadwick “Chad” Oliver Welles was a seminarian at Christ Church Seminary in Bronxville, New York. Though of a once wealthy family from Beacon Hill, Cambridge, he was poor and prided himself on the independence that poverty gives: for a man will pride himself on anything if he can not get rid of it. Although popular with his fellow seminarians, he had no close friends; and none had ever set foot in the garden, and shared a pipe, and a dream. Indeed, the reason for aloofness to his seminarian brothers was the secret of his unknown retreat, where in the evenings he could go to indulge, undisturbed, in his own studies and reveries and pipe dreams.