The two men walked down the stair and strolled together through the garden.
"A strange boy," said Uncle John, presently.
"I'm glad to see you've made friends with him," replied the lawyer, earnestly.

"Until now he has had no one to befriend him but me, and at times he's so unmanageable that it worries me dreadfully." "There's considerable character about the lad," said John Merrick; "but he's been spoiled and allowed to grow up wild, like a weed.

He's got it in him to make a criminal or a gentleman, whichever way his nature happens to develop." "He ought to go to a military school," replied Lawyer Watson.

"Proper training would make a man of Kenneth; but I can't induce Jane to spend the money on him.

She gives him food and clothing and lodging--all of the simplest description--but there her generosity ends.