"Just as you are, Master McLean." "I am not good to you, if you mean by it weakness and softness of heart.

Never spoil the young.

Speak sternly to them all the time.

Use the strap and the rod freely upon them and you may make men of them." Again Robert and Tayoga hid their smiles, but each knew that he had a soft place in the heart of the crusty teacher, and they spent a pleasant hour with him.

That night they slept in their old room at Mynheer Huysman's and two days later they and Willet went on board a sloop for New York, where they intended to see Governor de Lancey.