"He generally sits at that table, sir, but he has not come in yet."
"Is any one of his family with him?"
"I don't rightly know. There's a boy goes round with him a good deal—about the age of this young gentleman."
"I will try to get acquainted with him, pa," said Loammi. "I guess that'll be the easiest way to get in with the earl."
The breakfast proceeded and was nearly over for Loammi and his father, when the waiter came up.
"There's the earl just coming in, sir," he said, "and the boy with him."
Both father and son looked toward the earl with eager curiosity. They did not at first take special notice of the boy. When they did, Loammi grasped his father's arm in excitement.
"The boy looks just like Scott," he said.
"It is Scott," pronounced his father, looking through his eyeglasses.