It
may be the best thing for you that it has been found out, for it was
doing you no good to frequent such places."
"I don't want to hear any of your preaching, Frank Courtney. I guess I
can manage my own affairs without any advice from you."
"I don't care to intrude any advice," said Frank. "I have not much
reason to feel interested in you."
"You'd better look out how you treat me, though," said Mark, insolently.
"I know very well you dislike me, but it won't be safe for you to show
it while you are a dependent on my father."
"I don't propose to be a dependent on him long," said Frank, quietly.
"The truth of it is, you and your father are dependent upon property
which of right belongs to me. The time may come when I shall be able to
show this."
"What does he mean?" thought Mark, uneasily. "Will he contest the
will?"
It was perhaps an evidence of Mark's shrewdness that he had some doubts
about the validity of the will under which his father inherited.
CHAPTER XIII
MR. MANNING'S NEW PLAN
Mark so represented his school difficulty to his father that he incurred
but slight censure.
Indeed, Mr. Manning was so absorbed in plans for getting the greatest
enjoyment out of the estate of which he had obtained possession by
doubtful means that he didn't care to be disturbed about such a trifle
as his son's suspension.
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