him with his faithless conduct; in fact, he himself acknowledged
the justice of my words, and appeared extremely penitent,
begging me to forgive him. I felt that was not the time to talk
of forgiveness, and so I told him, saying that he could not
expect to obtain my pardon until he had proved to me the
sincerity of his repentance. Well, to cut a long story short,
when, later in the day, I sent the boy out to post a letter,
he failed to return, nor have I seen or heard of him since,
though that was more than a week ago. I do not believe he is
in Haughton—my private opinion being that he has joined Herbert