"You and Williams appear never to speak to each other now," said Mr. Rose. "I am sorry for it, Monty; I think you are the only boy who has any influence over him."
"I fear you are mistaken, sir, in that. Little Wildney has much more."
"Wildney?" asked Mr. Rose, in sorrowful surprise. "Wildney more influence than you?"
"Yes, sir."
"Ah, that our poor Edwin had lived!"
So, with a sigh, Walter Rose and Harry Montagu buried their friendship for Eric until happier days.
CHAPTER VI
ERIC AND MONTAGU
"And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love,
Doth work like madness in the brain.
Each spoke words of high disdain
And insult to his heart's best brother."
COLERIDGE'S Christabel.