"In the hotel, I suppose."
"Why isn't he with you?"
"Because he is no longer under my charge," answered Jed eyeing Percy fixedly.
"Ho, ho! you don't mean to say that you're bounced!" queried Percy, with a look of malicious pleasure.
"That is about the size of it."
"Well, I am surprised," returned Percy cheerfully. "What have you been up to?"
"Nothing."
"Then why are you discharged?" asked Percy with a look of innocent wonder.
"I don't think you need ask, Percy Dixon," said Jed coldly. "If you had not made your appearance at Sea Spray I should have kept my place."