CHAPTER TWO.
AFTER THE FIGHT.
Three boys began to explain at once; but the doctor, who was walking with his wife and two daughters, and had been attracted by the struggle going on, held up his hand.
"That will do! that will do!" he said in his most dignified manner and with his deepest-toned voice.

"I have seen enough.

Disgraceful! disgraceful! It would have been bad enough in the village lads and the farm labourers' boys; but in the young gentlemen of the Friary it is outrageous.

Silence!" he nearly shouted, as Nic began to speak.

"I tell you I saw enough.