CHAPTER VII.
On his return, Lashmar found a letter from Mrs.Woolstan awaiting him at Upper Woburn Place.

The lady wrote in rather an agitated strain; she had to report that Leonard was already packed off to school, the imperious Wrybolt having insisted on sending him away as soon as he had recovered from his cold, on a pretence that the boy ought not to lose any part of the new term.

"It is really very hard on me, don't you think?
I know nothing whatever about the school, which is a long way off, right away in Devonshire: And it does so grieve me that you couldn't say good-bye to the poor little fellow.

He says he shall write to you, and it would be so kind, dear Mr.Lashmar, if you could find a moment to answer him.

I know how grateful dear Len would be.