John was dismayed by his encounter with Nash and bitterly resentful. Like Hugh, his mind fomented with schemes of vengeance, and many a time he plunged Nash and his crew into oblivion. But at school he paid his weregild as demanded, in expiation of his crime of failure.
He and Hugh became good friends, and though Hugh was the follower, the admirer, he was without servility. He would talk to Minna about his new friend, and what a marvellous thing he had done, and Minna demanded to have him pointed out one day as she met her brother after school. John had seen the dark-haired little girl waiting outside school and was particularly pleased when he found she was Hugh’s sister. He decided that when she was a little older, he would have her as a girlfriend, she was very pretty. Minna was not pr
