He told me to have him up there at ten, but as he said nothing about custody, I thought I would do it my own way and come to you quiet like; so if you say as Master Walsham shall be up there at ten o'clock, I'll just take your word for it and won't come to fetch him.

The doctor was allus very good to me and my missus, and I shouldn't like to be walking through Sidmouth with my hand on his son's collar." "Thank you, Hobson," Mrs.Walsham said quietly.

"You can rely upon it my son shall be there punctually.

He has nothing to be afraid or ashamed of." Full of rage as Richard Horton had been, as he started for home, he would never have brought the matter before the squire on his own account.

His case was too weak, and he had been thrashed by a boy younger than himself.