CHAPTER V.

PREPARING TO LEAVE HOME.





Allan Roscoe's remonstrance with the two boys had the effect of
keeping the peace between them for the remainder of the week. Guy
did not think it prudent to taunt Hector, unless backed up by his
father, and he felt that the change in their relative positions was
satisfaction enough at present. Besides, his father, in a subsequent
conversation, had told Guy that it was his purpose to place Hector
in a boarding school, where the discipline would be strict, and
where he would be thrashed if he proved rebellious.

"I shall tell Mr. Smith," he added, "that the boy needs a strong
hand, and that I am not only perfectly willing that he should be
punished whenever occasion may call for it, but really desire it."

"Good, good!" commended Guy, gleefully. "I hope old Smith'll lay it
on good."

"I presume he will," said Allan Roscoe, smiling in sympathy with his
son's exuberance. "I am told by a man who knows him that he is a
tall man, strong enough to keep order, and determined to do it."