"Yes," said John. "I think I should like Charles to be the same as father, please." Mr. Goodwin added a large esquire after the word footman. "Now for Mitty," he said. "I suppose Mitty is the housekeeper?" "Why, the housekeeper is Mrs. Alcock!" said John, with a smile at Mr. Goodwin's ignorance. "There seem to be a good many servants at Overleigh." "Yes," replied John, "it is a nice party. We are company to each other. You see, father is always away almost, and he does not play anything when he is at home. Now, Charles always does his concertina in the evenings, and Francis is learning the flute." After the direction of the second letter had been finally settled, John licked them carefully up, and looked at them with triumph. "You must go now," said Mr. Goodwin. "I'm busy." John retreated to the door, and then paused. "Me and Mitty and Charles are much obliged," he said, with dignity. "Don't mention it," said Mr. Goodwin. But the incident remained in his mind. CHAPTER X. "Whoso would be a man must be a Nonconformist."--EMERSON. John was eleven years old when, during a memorable Easter holidays, his father died, and lay in state in the round room in the western tower, and was buried at midnight by torchlight in the little Norman church at Overleigh, as had been the custom of the Tempests from time immemorial. His father's death made very little difference to John, except that his holidays were spent with Miss Fane, an aunt in London: and Charles left to become a butler with a footman under him; and the other servants, too, seemed to melt away, leaving only Mitty, and Mr. Parker, and Mrs. Alcock, in the old shuttered home. Mr. Goodwin was John's tutor during the holidays. It was he who saved John's life at the railway station, at the risk of his own.