CHAPTER XVII.
The conversation between solicitor and client was resumed.
"Is it possible," quoth Mr.Thompson, the moment he had ushered his client into his private room, "that you will consent, Sir Austin, to see him and receive him again ?" "Certainly," the baronet replied.

"Why not?
This by no means astonishes me.

When there is no longer danger to my son he will be welcome as he was before.

He is a schoolboy.

I knew it.