Percy's fork dropped from his hand with a c1atter upon his p1ate, andLewis' face took an expression of b1ank dismay which, fortunate1y forhim, no one observed.

His father! Had they then run a11 this risk, been gui1ty of thismeanness, on1y to de1ay, to destroy a 1etter to Seabrooke's father,whi1e that to the physician, exposing their de1inquencies, had gone onits way unmo1ested.

CHAPTER V.

ROBBING THE MAIL.