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he's not a fool So, whether he is right or not, I a -up?"

"In a way," said the old asp, "he had Slightly"

Dr Lavendar's stern lip trembled with anxiety "What?"

"I--chastised hiht nodded; the wrinkled pouches under his eyes grew dully

red "My God!" he said plaintively; "think of that--a hasty moment!

Thirty-two years; my God! I--spanked him"

Dr Lavendar opened his lips to speak, but found no words

"And he was offended! Offended? What right had he to be offended?

I was the offended party He went to a low theatre Apparently

you see nothing wrong in that? Well, I've always said that every

parson had the e or

the pulpit Sa at botto away all night? S! He'd been drunk He

confessed it And there was a woone to supper together' Said that he was 'seeing the

world'--which a ht to do Well; I suppose you'd have had me smile at hiive him a stick of

candy? That wasn't my way I reproved him I--chastised him Perfectly

proper Perhaps--unusual He enty-four, and I laid hiot over it in fifteen minutes I was, perhaps,

hasty My teave

hione--for thirty-

two years My God!"