"For what I will, I will, and there's an end."
SHAKESPEAKE.
Max was on the veranda, waiting, like the little gentleman he was, to
hand the girls into the carriage.
Hardly were they seated therein and the door closed upon them, when he
exclaimed, "Why, what's the matter?"
"Why do you think anything is?" queried Rosie, with an attempt to laugh.
"Because you all look so excited, and--what's your hand wrapped up for,
Lu?"
She removed the handkerchief and held the hand out before him.
"Who did that? Who dared do such a thing to my sister?" he asked hotly,
his face crimsoning with anger and indignation.
"Never mind who," said Lulu.
"Signor Foresti," said Rosie. "I hope grandpa will have him fined and
imprisoned for it--such a cowardly, savage attack as it was!"
"I only wish I was big enough and strong enough to flog him well for it,"
growled Max, clenching his fists and speaking between his shut teeth. "If
papa were here, I think the cowardly villain wouldn't escape without a
sound drubbing."
Lulu laughed rather hysterically as she said, "I took the law into my own
hands, Max, and punished him pretty well for it, I believe.
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