CHAPTER XXXVIII. 

THE SCARBOROUGH CORRESPONDENCE. 

It was as Mountjoy had said. The squire had written to him a letter inviting him to Tretton, and telling him that it would be the best home for him till death should have put Tretton into other hands. Mountjoy had thought the matter over, sitting in the easy-chair in his brother's room, and had at last declined the invitation. As his letter was emblematic of the man, it may be as well to give it to the reader: 

"My dear father,--I don't think it will suit me to go down to Tretton at present. I don't mind the cards, and I don't doubt that you would make it better than this place. But, to tell the truth, I don't believe a word of what you have told to the world about my mother, and some of these days I mean to have it out with Augustus. I shall not sit quietly by and see Tretton taken out of my mouth. Therefore I think I had better not go to Tretton. 

"Yours truly, 

"MOUNTJOY SCARBOROUGH." 

This had not at all surprised the father, and had not in the least angered him. He rather liked his son for standing up for his mother, and was by no means offended at the expression of his son's incredulity. But what was there in the prospect of a future lawsuit to prevent his son coming to Tretton? There need be no word spoken as to the property. Tretton would be infinitely more comfortable than those rooms in Victoria Street, and he was aware that the hospitality of Victoria Street would not be given in an ungrudging spirit. "I shouldn't like it," said the old squire to himself as he lay quiet on his sofa. "I shouldn't like at all to be the humble guest of Augustus. Augustus would certainly say a nasty word or two."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who penned a missive?
2. Who wrote to somebody?
3. 
Q2:
1. Who is the squire?
2. What is the squire's name?
3. 
Q3:
1. Who was the squire's note written to?
2. Who did the squire pen a letter to?
3. 
Q4:
1. What is the relationship between Mountjoy and the squire?
2. How are MOUNTJOY and the squire related to one another?
3. 
Q5:
1. 
2. 
3. 
Q6:
1. Was the squire's letter unexpected?
2. Was MOUNTJOY taken aback by the letter?
3. 
Q7:
1. Did Mountjoy lose his temper after reading the letter?
2. Did the squire's letter send Mountjoy into a rage?
3. 
Q8:
1. Why didn't the letter made the father angry?
2. How was the father able to keep his calm reading the letter?
3. 
Q9:
1. Where did the father want his son to travel to ?
2. Where did the dad want the squire to go?
3. 
Q10:
1. What accusation does the squire make in the letter?
2. What does the letter writer accuse his father of having done?
3. 
Q11:
1. What doesn't the son believe?
2. What does the son think to be false?
3. 
Q12:
1. Who was probably going to make an unkind statement?
2. Who did it seem was going to speak rudely?
3. 
