He hasna been at the schuil this twa days." With these words Willie bolted from the shop, and set off at full speed.

The latter part of his statement was perfectly true.
The day after the fight, Mr Malison came to the school as usual, but with his arm in a sling.

To Annie's dismay, Alec did not make his appearance.
It had of course been impossible to conceal his corporal condition from his mother; and the heart of the widow so yearned over the suffering of her son, though no confession of suffering escaped Alec's lips, that she vowed in anger that he should never cross the door of that school again.

For three or four days she held immovably to her resolution, much to Alec's annoyance, and to the consternation of Mr Malison, who feared that he had not only lost a pupil, but made an enemy.

For Mr Malison had every reason for being as smooth-faced with the parents as he always was: he had ulterior hopes in Glamerton.