I can no longer tolerate your presence here." "You send us out to starve ?" said the housekeeper bitterly.
"No; I will provide for you.

I will allow you fifty dollars a month and Conrad half as much, and you can board where you please." "While that boy usurps our place ?" said Mrs.Hill bitterly.
"That is a matter to be decided between Ben and myself." "We will go at once," said the housekeeper.
"I don't require it.

You can stay here until you have secured a satisfactory boarding place." But Conrad and his mother left the house the next morning.

They saw that Mrs.Hamilton was no longer to be deceived, and they could gain nothing by staying.

There was an angry scene between the mother and son.
"Were you mad, Conrad," said his mother, "to steal, where you were sure to be found out?
It is your folly that has turned Cousin Hamilton against us ?" "No; it is that boy.