As if we wanted a boy to bring up!" "But I must do something.

I--I'm all he's got.

He says so." "Good heavens! Well, send him to boarding-school, then, or to the penitentiary; anywhere but here!" "Shucks! Let the kid come," laughed Bertram.

"Poor little homesick devil! What's the use?
I'll take him in.

How old is he, anyhow ?" William frowned, and mused aloud slowly.
"Why, I don't know.