Mr.Williams held him firmly, and said in a calm voice, "I have just seen you treat one of your schoolfellows with the grossest violence.

It makes me blush for you, Roslyn Boys," he continued, turning to the group that surrounded him, "that you can stand by unmoved, and see such things done.

You know that you despise any one who tells a master, yet you allow this bullying to go on, and that, too, without any provocation.
Now, mark; it makes no difference that the boy hurt is my own son; I would have punished this scoundrel, whoever it had been, and I shall punish him now." With these words he lifted the riding-whip which he happened to be carrying, and gave Barker one of the most satisfactory castigations he had ever undergone; the boys declared that Dr.Rowlands' "swishings" were nothing to it.

Mr.Williams saw that the offender was a tough subject, and determined that he should not soon forget the punishment he then received.

He had never heard from Eric how this boy had been treating him, but he had heard it from Russell, and now he had seen one of the worst specimens of it with his own eyes.