“Report me? No, indeed,” answered Max calmly.
“Did he scold you much?” asked Alex sympathetically.
“Scold me?” echoed Max. “Not a bit.”
“Well then, what the mischief did he do? Tell us, Max, for we’re dying to know,” said Harry persuasively.
“Well, I’ll tell you,” answered Max slowly. “He treated me like a gentleman that had made a mistake, and I’m going to try to behave like a gentleman, after this. Bony’s a good man, boys, even if he is queer; and I mean to stand by him. I’m ashamed of myself that I’ve carried on so, and I told him I was. That’s all there is about it.”
“I’ll tell you what,” remarked Harry, as he and Alex went away together; “Bony must have had a change of heart.”
“It’s much more likely that Max has,” responded Alex Sterne.
CHAPTER IX.
IN THE STORM.
It was more than a week after Thanksgiving when Dr. Flemming came hurrying into the school-room one morning, and spoke to Mr. Boniface for a moment. Then he turned to the boys who were watching, curious to see the meaning of his unwonted excitement.