Chapter 24 PET GIVES HER TUTOR A LESSON.

"Then on his blow the swelling vein

Throbbed, as if back upon his brain

The hot blood ebbed and flowed again."

-Byron.

Your pardon, dear reader, if, without further preface, I skip over a period of six years. One brief bird's-eye glance at the past, and then to go on with our history.

Those six years had changed Ray and Ranty from bo