But we will return to Robert.
He was eagerly pressing his way through the crowd, when he felt a light touch upon his arm.
Looking around, he saw a little fellow neatly and simply dressed, who held a note up to him.
“Who sent it?” he asked, as he took it from the boy.
“A gentleman with white hair,” he respectfully answered, and which was true, for Ralph had cunningly given the note to his uncle to send by the boy.
With a beating heart Robert hastily tore it open, and read the following lines:
“My Dear Son:—
“I arrived to-day, but not in time to see you before the exercises commenced. Come to me at once, for my heart aches to welcome my long absent boy to my arms. Come quickly to your impatient father.
“Robert Ellerton.
“The hotels are all full, so I have been obliged to take up with such accommodations as I can get. The bearer of the note will conduct you to me.