"No wonder you don't see it--when we've let his system get all run down like this!" "Good heavens!" the mystified Mr.Schofield murmured.

"Penrod's system hasn't been running down; it's just the same as it always was.

He's absolutely all right." "Indeed he is not!" she said severely.

"We've got to take better care of him than we have been." "Why, how could--" "I know what I'm talking about," she interrupted.

"Penrod is anything but a strong boy, and it's all our fault.