Part 27 (1/2)
”Oh, bother! I'd forgotten all about it Don't make any more fuss about that I say, what a bit of luck! We h, eh?”
”Quiet? I wouldn't have any one know for the world!”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
A STARTLING DISCOVERY
The two lads were such close coether of an afternoon, fishi+ng, cliff-clis, insects,absences were not considered at all extraordinary, though they were noticed by both Mrs Burnet and Lady Ladelle, and one evening formed the subject of a few remarks at dinner
The Doctor and his wife often dined at the old manor-house, and upon this occasion Mike's mother asked her visitors if they did not think they wandered toothe answer out of his guests'of the kind, so don't you put such ideas in her head”
”But they are often so late, my dear”
”Well, it's su Pleasantest part of the day If they ell, let them play well Eh, Burnet?”
”Certainly,” said the Doctor, ”so long as they don't get into mischief
But do they ell?”
”What do you say, Mr Deane?” said the baronet
”Admirably,” replied the tutor; ”but I must say that I should like them to have a couple of hours' more study a day--say a couple of hours in the afternoon”
”No,” said the Doctor elish and classics and calculations everyof an afternoon, and strengthen their bodies after you've done strengthening their heads”
”I side with you, Burnet,” said the baronet ”Let theo on as they are for a year or two, and then we'll see”
The tutor bowed ”I only thought I was not doing enough for theetically
”Plenty,home plenty of litter, as the servants call it”
”Yes,” said the Doctor, ”all's education I see Lady Ladelle fidgets about her boy, just as o very far from home”
”But I always dread some accident,” said Mrs Burnet
”Yes, , and have been ever since Vince broke his leg”
”Through going into dangerous places,” said Mrs Burnet
”Well, yes, that was fro off a wall or over a chair”
Just when this conversation was taking place the boys were slowly trudging ho by a circuitous way, for the fact was very evident that old Daygo did spend a good deal of tily of opinion that he suspected their discovery
But Mike was as fully convinced to the contrary
”He has no idea of it, I'o