"Yes, sir."
"And you'll pay all other damages, too."
"Yes, sir."
"And you'll go to your classroom and stay there until supper time," went on Job Haskers, in high anger. "Stay there every day this week, too. Do you hear?"
"Yes, sir, but——"
"I will not listen to a word, young man. Go,—go at once! If I had my way I'd dismiss you from the school!" roared the assistant teacher.
And then and there he made Nat Poole take up his kite and march off to the academy, there to stay in after school every day for a full week. More than this, he brought in a bill for fifteen dollars' worth of damage, to the silk hat and the suit of clothing, and this bill Aaron Poole had to pay, even though the miserly money-lender did his best to evade it.