, or you would not say that."

"Your father would have made it his business to do him good."

"But I am not like my father, very far from that."

"Well, your father was nothing by himself. You are bound to do the same
work, and you can have the same help. And it will pay in the long run.
Oh, yes! it will pay!"

"I have been telling David that he may do that pleasant-spoken youth
much good, if he is faithful to him and to himself," added she, as Mrs
Inglis came into the room.

"And I have been telling Miss Bethia that she does not know me, or him,
or she wouldn't say that, mamma," said David.

"She must know you by this time, I think, Davie," said his mother,
smiling.

"I used to know him pretty well, and he seems to be getting along pretty
much so. I don't know as I see any change for the worse in him. He has
had great privileges, and he has great responsibility."

"Yes," said his mother, gravely; "and I quite agree with you, Miss
Bethia, he may do Mr Philip good by a diligent and faithful performance
of his daily duties, if in no other way. He has done so already."

"Oh, mamma!" said David, "Miss Bethia will think you are growing vain."

"No, I sha'n't. But he must be faithful in word as well as in deed.
Oh! I guess he'll get along pretty well--David, I mean, not young Mr
Oswald."

Jem came home while they were still talking.

"Mamma," said he, as he followed his mother out of the room, "we saw
Philip going into Dick's saloon as we were going up the street and
Violet said he'd be just as pleased and just as popular there as in our
own home among the children, and she said he was as weak as water. That
is all she knows! Violet is hard on Phil."

"She cannot think it right for him to spend his evenings in such a
place," said his mother.

"But he sees no harm in it, and I don't suppose there is much."

"I should think it great harm for one of my boys," said his mother,
gravely.

"All right, mamma!" said Jem. "But, then, as Miss Barnes says, our
bringing up has been different."

CHAPTER TWELVE.

When it was fairly decided that Miss Bethia's pleasant plan for the
summer was possible, there was little time lost in preparation. Miss
Bethia went away at once, to have all things ready for their coming, and
in a few days Mrs Inglis and Violet and the children followed. The
little Oswalds went with them, and Jem and possibly Frank Oswald were to
follow when their holidays commenced. Whether