"He'll do," he murmured, "but what the deuce was my young dandy doing on the roof ?" The Captain had learned in the army the wisdom of asking no needless questions.

"Leila must have been a pretty lively instructor in mischief.

By and by, Ann will have it out of the boy, and--I must stop that.

Now she will be too full of surgery.

She is sure to think Leila had something to do with it." He saw of late that Ann was resolute as to what to him would be a sad loss.
Leila was to be sent to school before long--accomplishments! "Damn accomplishments! I have tried to make a boy out of her--now the inevitable feminine appears--she was scared white--and the boy was pretty shaky.