"I am not against wholesome discipline, but I think it can be carried too far; at any rate, I hope you will be just as obedient to Mr.Bastow as if he always had a cane on the table beside him." Mark, therefore, went to work in a cheerful spirit, and soon found that he made more progress in a week under Mr.Bastow's gentle tuition than he had done in a month under the vigorous discipline of his former master.

Mr.and Mrs.Greg dined regularly at the Squire's once a week.
"Have you had that Indian servant of yours long, Mr.Thorndyke ?" Mrs.
Greg asked one day.

"He is a strange looking creature.

Of course, in the daytime, when one sees him about in ordinary clothes, one does not notice him so much; but of an evening, in that Eastern costume of his, he looks very strange." "He was the servant of the Colonel, my brother," the Squire replied.

"He brought him over from India with him.