clock! What made you get up so soon as that?" cried the
Colonel, as he looked from one to the other.

"We were called, father, and obliged to get up." And between them the
boys narrated their early morning adventure.

"Tut, tut, tut, tut!" ejaculated the Colonel. "Then you have had no
breakfast at all?"

Singh shook his head.

"Come along with me, then," cried the Colonel. "I'll soon put that
right."

"Can't, father. We haven't got leave. We shall be punished for
breaking out of school."

"Nonsense!" cried his father. "You didn't break out of school. You
were carried off. Here, I'll put that right with the Doctor; but there
must be no more of this. You lads don't want elephants till you go back
to Dour, and that won't be for years to come."

Very shortly afterwards the boys were once more seated at the Colonel's
table, to partake of a leisurely breakfast, before he, as he termed it,
marched them back like a couple of deserters to the Doctor's
establishment.

Wrench looked at them at first wonderingly, and then shook his head as
he announced that the boys were all in their classes, and that the
Doctor was going round the grounds with the gardener to see what damage
was done by the second visit of the elephant; when the Colonel proposed
that they should follow and give the boys' version of their adventure.

They came upon him they sought almost directly after, for he had
inspected the damaged hedge, and was gazing very ruefully at the
broken-down palisade and the torn and trampled flower-beds.

He was busy pointing out the mischief to his companion, for Morris was
with him, looking very sympathetic, as he borrowed the Doctor's
walking-cane and carried his mathematical studies into daily life and
utility by bending down and taking the dimensions of the elephant's
great circular foot-prints.

The Doctor frowned as he turned and saw who were approaching; but
explanations followed as he rather ponderously led the way into his
study, where everything connected with the discipline of his school was
always discussed.

"Oh, of course, Colonel Severn," he said, as his visitor took leave. "I
hold your ward and son perfectly blameless, and have nothing to say
about their absence from my establishment this morning.--But I hope,
young gentlemen, that this is the last of these adventures; and I am
glad, Colonel, that you met them and made them your guests."

"Unintentionally, my dear sir--unintentionally," s