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98 "Nero?" suggested Willie.

"Yes, Nero, the tyrant. Uncle Robert is a tyrant. He wanted to frighten us and make us make mistakes in the things he asked us about, so that he could find fault with us. He is perfectly horrid! I don't see how mother could have had such a horrid brother."

Willie considered the matter.

"She thought he was kind and nice; she always said so."

"That was just because she was kind and dear and lovely and an angel, herself," said Roy with a shaking voice. "mother always thought well of people, even if every one else knew they were hateful."

Willie was silent for a while. At length he said gently,

"Don't you s 'pose we ought to try and do it too?"

"Do what too?"

Roy had drifted away from the subject