"Well, I never! Him! What, all the while he——"

"Precisely."

"Well, that beats everything. Oh, if I'd known that!"

"I'll give him your message."

"No, sir, not now, I thank you. The villain!"

"You are right," said I. "I think your mother ought to have—scolded him, too."

"Now you promised, sir——" but Joe came up, and I escaped.

IV.

A REPENTANT SINNER.