There was a tutor now at Tracy Park for Jack, but Maude had been transferred to Arthur's care.

This was wholly due to Jerry, who alone could have induced him to let Maude share her instruction.

Arthur did not care for Maude.

She was dull, he said, and would never learn her lessons.

But Jerry coaxed so hard that Arthur consented at last, and when Jerry had been with him about three years, Maude became his pupil, and that of Jerry as well, for nearly every day when the lessons were over the two little girls might have been seen sitting together under the trees in the park, or in some corner of the house, Maude puzzled, and perplexed, and worried, and Jerry anxious, decided, and peremptory, as she went over and over again with what was so clear to her and so hazy to her friend.
'Oh, dear me, suz, what does ail you ?' she said, one day, with a stamp of her foot, after she had tried in vain to make Maude see through a simple sum in long division.