And thus talking he left the parlor, clapped his silk hat on his head, and dashed from the boarding house.
CHAPTER XXVII.
MR. TALBOT RECEIVES ANOTHER SET-BACK.
"He's in a rage, it's easy to see that. I wonder what he will do next?"
Such was the mental question Robert asked when he found himself once more alone.
James Talbot had tried a little plan of his own, and it had failed and left him in a worse position than before.
He had hoped by offering Robert a good salary—to be paid out of Mrs. Talbot's money—to get the youth under his thumb. But our hero had refused to have anything to do with him and had threatened to do all he could to induce Mrs. Talbot to keep her fortune in her own control.
"He's a regular imp," muttered James Talbot, as he hurried down the street, so enraged that he scarcely knew where he was walking. "If he writes home to his mother it will be harder than ever to do anything with her. I wish he was at the bottom of the sea!"