up, and go from time to time to see if he is come to a better mind."

She rose up.

"No, no, Rachel!" absolutely screamed Fanny, starting up, "my boy
hasn't done anything wrong, and I won't have him locked up! Go away!
If anything is to be done to my boys, I'll do it myself: they haven't
got any one but me. Oh, I wish the Major would come!"

"Fanny, how can you be so foolish?--as if I would hurt your boys!"

"But you won't believe Conrade--my Conrade, that never told a
falsehood in his life!" cried the mother, with a flush in her cheeks
and a bright glance in her soft eyes. "You want me to punish him for
what he hasn't done."

"How much alike mothers are in all classes of life," thought Rachel,
and much in the way in which she would have brought Zack's mother to
reason by threats of expulsion from the shoe-club, she observed,
"Well Fanny, one thing is clear, while you are so weak as to let that
boy go on in his deceit, unrepentant and unpunished, I can have no
more to do with his education."

"Indeed," softly said Fanny, "I am afraid so, Rachel. You have taken
a great deal of trouble, but Conrade declares he will never say a
lesson to you again, and I don't quite see how to make him after
this."

"Oh, very well; then there's an end of it. I am sorry for you,
Fanny."