When you have written the note I will send a servant off at once in a cab to fetch them." "And, father," Dick continued, "if you don't mind, might Frank and I have our dinner quietly together in my room?
You've got a dinner party on, and Frank won't enjoy it half as much as he would dining quietly with me." "By all means," Sir James said.

"But mind he is not to run away without seeing me.
"You are a foolish lad," he went on in a kind voice to Frank; "and it was wrong as well as foolish to hide yourself from your friends.

However independent we may be in this world, all must, to a certain extent, rely upon others.

There is scarcely a man who can stand aloof from the rest and say, 'I want nothing of you.' I can understand your feeling in shrinking from asking a favor of me, or of the fathers of the other boys who are, like myself, deeply indebted to you for the great service you have rendered their sons.

I can admire the feeling if not carried too far; but you should have let your schoolfellows know exactly how you were placed, and so have given us the opportunity of repaying the obligation if we were disposed, not to have run away and hidden yourself from us." "I am sorry, sir," Frank said simply.