stays, in the respect of the Seminary for ever. There had
been a glorious fight on the first day of the war with the "Pennies,"
and when they were beaten, a dozen of them, making a brave rearguard
fight, took up their position with the Count's windows as their
background. There were limits to license even in those brave old days,
and it was understood that the windows of houses, especially private
houses, and still more especially in the vicinity of the Seminary,
should not be broken, and if they were broken the culprits were hunted
down and interviewed by "Bulldog" at length. When the "Pennies" placed
themselves under the protection of the Count's glass, which was really
an unconscious act of meanness on their part, the Seminary distinctly
hesitated; but Speug was in command, and he knew no scruples as he knew
no fear.

"Dash the windows!" cried the Seminary captain; and when the "Pennies"
were driven along the street, the windows had been so effectually dashed
that there was not a sound pane of glass in the Count's sitting-room. As
the victorious army returned to their capital, and the heat of battle
died down, some anxiety about to-morrow arose even in minds not given to
care, for Mistress Jamieson was not the woman to have her glass broken
for nothing, and it was shrewdly suspected that the Count, with all his
dandyism, would not take this affront lightly. As a matter of fact,
Mistress Jamieson made a personal call upon the Rector that evening, and
explained with much eloquence to that timid, harassed scholar that,
unless his boys were kept in better order, Muirtown would not be a place
for human habitation; and before she left she demanded the blood of the
offenders; she also compared Muirtown in its present condition to Sodom
and Gomorrah. As the Rector was always willing to leave discipline in
the capable hands of Bulldog, and as the chief sinners would almost
certainly be in his class in the forenoon, the Count, who had witnessed
the whole battle from a secure corner in his sitting-room, and had
afterwards helped Mistress Jamieson to clear away the _debris_, went to
give his evidence and identify the culprit. He felt it to be a dramatic
occasion, and he rose to its height; and the school retained a grateful
recollection of Bulldog and the Count side by side--the Count carrying
himself with all the grace and dignity of a foreign ambassador come to
settle an international dispute, and Bulldog more austere than ever