"He ought to have told me all this before we started."
"If he had, you would have made a fuss, and he wished to avoid this."
"I think it was mean and unfair," said Robert, hotly.
"Perhaps you had better write and tell him so," said James Cromwell, sneering.
"I shall write to him," said Robert, very firmly. "My father never would have sanctioned such an arrangement as this. Besides, I don't believe there is any good school out here."
"It is just possible that there may be somebody in Madison who may know enough to teach you," said Cromwell, with an unpleasant sneer.
Robert Raymond looked at him intently. He felt instinctively that he should obtain no sympathy in his complaints, and he became silent. He went back to the hotel and wrote a letter to Mr. Morton, in which he set forth respectfully his objections to remaining at the West. The letter reached its destination, but his guardian did not see fit to answer it.