Bud, next time he soldiers on you, send him to me." "All right, sir," replied Bud, with a soothing grin.

And when Waugh was gone, he said to Arthur, "Don't mind him.

Just keep pegging along, and you'll learn all right." Bud's was the tone a teacher uses to encourage a defective child.

It stung Arthur more fiercely than had Waugh's.

It flashed on him that the men--well, they certainly hadn't been looking up to him as he had been fondly imagining.