The old Squire said little; but it was plain to see that he was greatly relieved.
If the day had been a fatiguing one for us, it had been doubly so for poor Halstead.

We carried him up to his room, put him to bed and sent for a doctor.

He did not leave his room again for three weeks and required no end of care from grandmother and the girls.
Little was ever said among us afterwards of this escapade of Halstead's.
As for Alfred, he came sneaking home about a month later, but had the decency, or perhaps it was the prudence, to keep away from us for nearly a year..