St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878

School, but the boys in that establishment often used to

t she had the welfare of every boy at heart, and Dr. Brier was one of those amiable men who never act except in concer

of unquestionable ability, and so successful had the Doctor been in turning out good scholars that he had applications from var

e Doctor's private drawing-room, when twenty boys at a time were

ng acquainted with the boys, and it enabled them to see the Doctor, not i

have dreaded the return of the so-called social evening, when they would have to be, for some hours, in a state of nervous

ion was always a red-letter day with them, and if ever, through misbehavior, an invitation

hich inclosed the play-ground, putting on their jackets to ret

house on Tuesday?" a

aid Marti

added Ali

rse luck," sai

luck?" as

ther testily. "You're the Doctor's nephew, and we all know that we've got to be c

flashed up in honest anger that such pa

atured speeches. I tell you now, once for all, that I never did and never shall blow upon any boy in this school. You know as well as I do that the D

boys who had gathered round seemed delighted at the rebuke a

invitations for Tuesday. "If Digby doesn't like the receptions, it's a pity he do

ne should," said Alick; "to my mind th

er, "but they don't suit me. They are precious slow affairs, and I don't care much for th

had committed high treason in speaking lightly of a name dear to the heart of ev

s for him to tread any further, and so, with a defiant "Bah!"

ew sunshine around them; they felt that they were thought about, cared for and loved, and in any little scrape into which, boy-like, they might get, they felt satisfied that if the matter only came to her knowledge they would get an impartial judgment on the case, and the best construction that could be put upon their conduct would be sure to be suggested by her. But out of eighty bo

one road, Howard and Martin strolled leis

uch lately that he hardly seems the same fellow he was. Have you n

tered very much. I wish we could be as friendly as we used to be,

we used to be the best o

seems to have taken a dislike to me. I can't help t

several times been 'out of bounds' for a long time at a stretch, and if it hadn't been for Alick Fraser and one

ticled to a lawyer, and I know he has made up his mind to go to sea. He is crazy about pirates, and whale-hunts, and desolate islands, and all that sort

Howard

aps what?"

I have noticed him bring things home after he has been out of bounds, and carefully put them in his big box, which he always keeps locked, and I ha

occurred about a month ago, which I would rather not mention, but it led me to say to him that I hoped he would not be so foolish as to think of throwing

no time for further talk, and it was not f