text:  Next morning however he received a letter by the penny-post written no doubt in Jack's hand but obviously dictated by the attorney in these terms:-- "Honoured Sir--Lest there should be any misconception between us as to our yesterday's conversation I have put into writing the substance of what was agreed on between us which I understand to be this: that there shall be no let or impediment to the Squire's full and absolute right of naming an usher in all cases of vacancy; that I shall have an equally full right to object to the said usher for any reasons that may be satisfactory to myself and thereupon to exclude him from the school; leaving it to the Squire if he pleases to send another whom I shall have the right of handling in the same fashion with this further proviso that if the Squire does not fill up the office to my satisfaction within half-a-year I shall be entitled to take the appointment into my own hands