"With great severity."
"Ho! ho! He'll get more than he bargains for. I don't mind staying at home now, father."
"Hope you'll have a good time, Oliver," said Roland, with a chuckle, when Oliver and his father were on the point of starting. "How lonely I'll feel without you!"
Oliver thought it rather strange that Roland should acquiesce so readily in the plan which left him at home, but it soon passed away from his mind.
CHAPTER XIII.
MR. KENYON'S PLANS FOR OLIVER.
S OON after they were seated in the cars, bound for New York, Mr. Kenyon remarked:
"Perhaps you are surprised, Oliver, that I take you with me instead of Roland."
Oliver admitted that he was surprised.
"The fact is," said Mr. Kenyon candidly, "I don't think Roland treats you as well as he should."