They know, perhaps, too much about his bills and the state of his credit.

A builder looks in--the juniors are tolerably civil and explain to him that it is no use calling for yet another hour at least.

The builder consults his watch, and decides to see the chief clerk (who is himself an attorney, having passed the examination), and is forthwith conducted upstairs.

A burly farmer appears, and the grave senior puts his head up to answer, and expresses his sorrow that the principal is so occupied.

The burly farmer, however, who is evidently a man of substance, thinks that the chief clerk can also do what he wants, and he, too, is ushered upstairs.