could have heard a pin drop, so quiet was it. The hard breathing of the boys and girls
principal sharply. "The
re for the guilty ones
l on the steps. Then,
something e
Bert glanced from side to side as he sat in his seat, wonde
ly. "Very well. You may all go to your class-rooms, with the exception of
g at him curiously, as did other girls. Bert was glad Flossie and Freddie were not in the room, for the kindergarten children did n
ce! It did not seem possible. And there was but one explanation of it. It must be in connect
spoke aloud. It sounded like Danny Rugg, but poor Bert wa
d. He met many glances that were kind, and others, from Danny Rugg's friends, that were not. Nan waved her hand at her brother as she passed him, and Bert smiled at h
ome writing paper, Ber
edy sent m
as. I guess Mr. Tetlow thinks I had s
d y
exclaimed B
e other boy the package of writing paper Miss Ke
er and I must treat it seriously. Now again, I ask if you have anything to
know that I have anything to say, i
at you had anythi
er helped roll i
know w
haven't the
e not anywhe
, s
sk you, have yo
s pocket, and then, as he recalled some
but I haven't
Mr. Tetlow, sudden
t to know that it was his knife. It had his name on the
s mine," he
do you know where i
low, I haven
p on the steps almost under the big snowbal
have to say that I don't
my knife the
much as though you were one of the boys who had played this trick-a trick that has made considerable trouble
't believe in that sort of thing. But I am very sorry that you did not admi
ing into his eyes. "I don't know how my knife got there, but I do
incipal was silent.
against you I am sorry to say. And this trick was one I can not easily overlook. Rolling the snowball on the steps was bad enough,
lying on top of the ice I might think you had come up merely to look at the big ball, and had dropped your property there. But the knife was found frozen fast, showi
d not leave my knife there. I remember now-I can expl
etlow quietly, "I'll he
rt