Up to now Bob's pranks had been bad enough, but to play this trick on the minister, and at the annual donation supper, where nearly every person in the village was present, was the climax.

She felt that she had been much humiliated.
Bob's father heard what had happened, and came up to his son.
"Bob," he said, in a curiously quiet voice, "you must go home at once.

I shall have to punish you severely for this." Bob knew what that meant.

He wished, most heartily, that he had not played this last prank.

But it was too late now.
"I told you I thought he was up to something," whispered the captain to Mrs.Henderson.
"Yes, you were right," she admitted.