Hitchcock's office. If you try to force me, I shall
write to _The Times_ about it."
Such a threat would have sounded absurd in the mouth of a schoolboy
before the Pomeroy business; but now Mr. Lidderdale took it seriously
and began to wonder if Haverton House would survive any more of such
publicity. When a few days later Mr. Ogilvie, whom Mark had consulted
about his future, wrote to propose that Mark should live with him and
work under his superintendence with the idea of winning a scholarship at
Oxford, Mr. Lidderdale was inclined to treat his suggestion as a
solution of the problem, and he replied encouragingly:
Haverton House,
Slowbridge.
Jan. 15.
Dear Sir,
Am I to understand from your letter that you are offering to make
yourself responsible for my nephew's future, for I must warn you
that I could not accept your suggestion unless such were the case?
I do not approve of what I assume will be the trend of your
education, and I should have to disclaim any further responsibility
in the matter of my nephew's future. I may inform you that I hold
in trust for him until he comes of age the sum of L522 8s. 7d.
which was left by his mother. The annual interest upon this I have
used until now as a slight contribution to the expense to which I
have been put on his account; but I have not thought it right to
use any of the capital sum.
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