"Not for WEEKS! Papa would----" "But Margaret," he urged plaintively, "how can you blame me for----" "I have not used the word 'blame,'" she interrupted.

"But I must insist that for your carelessness to--to wreak such havoc--cannot fail to--to lessen my confidence in your powers of judgment.

I cannot change my convictions in this matter--not to-night--and I cannot remain here another instant.

The poor child may need me.

Robert, good-night." With chill dignity she withdrew, entered the house, and returned to the sick-room, leaving the young man in outer darkness to brood upon his crime--and upon Penrod.
That sincere invalid became convalescent upon the third day; and a week elapsed, then, before he found an opportunity to leave the house unaccompanied--save by Duke.