"The low beggar! I'd like to come up with him.

Perhaps, I shall have a chance some day." When Colonel Preston returned home, the whole story was told to him; but, colored though it was, he guessed how matters actually stood, and was far from becoming his son's partisan.

He privately went to Mr.
Stone and obtained his version of the affair.
"You did right, Mr.Stone," he said, at the end.

"If my son chooses to act the bully, he must take the consequences.

Mrs.Preston does not look upon it in the same light, and insists upon my taking Godfrey from school.