“If these statements are true,” he said slowly, “the boy should be removed at once. The question is, are they true or not?”
“What did you know of the school, sir, that led you to select it for Vivian Bell?”
“I saw it advertised in the Times. Several well-known names were appended as references.”
“I chanced to have a fellow passenger, a young man, who, in his boyhood, was a pupil at the school.”
“Ha! And what did he say?”
“That Dr. Musgrave was a brute and a tyrant.”
“Possibly he was insubordinate, also.”
“I shall bring him in some day to call upon you. His name is August Locke, of Glasgow.”
“Indeed! Is he related to the merchant of that name?” asked Mr. Russell, with interest.
“He is his son.”