hoping for an affirmative answer, as it would help him to prejudice
his father against our hero.

"No," answered Hector, smiling, "I don't apprehend there will be any
necessity, for he won't insult me as you have done."

Guy lost notime in seeking his father, and laying the matter before
him, inveighing against Hector with great bitterness.

"So he knocked you down, did he, Guy?" asked Allan Roscoe,
thoughtfully.

"Yes; he took me unawares, or he couldn't have done it," answered
Guy, a little ashamed at the avowal.

"What did you do?"

"I--I told him he should suffer for it."

"Why did he attack you?"

"It was on account of something I said."

"What was it?"

Guy reluctantly answered this question, and with correctness.

"It was your fault for speaking to him wrhen he was feeling sore at
making a painful discovery."