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I was a bit rocky in that yesterday. I can bone away until the president sends a special message for me." "Want us to get anything for you?" questioned Dick. "Yes, a good fat letter from well, a fat letter, that's all." "Postmarked Cedarville, and in Nellie Laning's handwriting," came from Sam slyly. "I didn't know they postmarked letters in handwriting," answered Tom innocently.
"That is true, Royce, but we want you to sign a confession as to just how that ring got in the inkwell. If you don't do that, the seminary authorities may still think it was placed there by Miss Laning." "Oh, I don't want to put nuthin' off on Miss Laning's shoulders," answered the former gardener. "If you want a confession from me so as you can clear her, go ahead!"
"If it is all the same, I would like to engage a room at your farmhouse for the night," answered Tom, and told his tale. At the mention of Josiah Crabtree's name John Laning's face grew dark. "I don't wonder you had a row with that man," he said. "I know him only too well. You can stay at my house if you will, and it shall not cost you a cent."
"Perhaps we can snowball him " began Sam, when Dick set up another cry. "It's Laning's dog, boys. What fools we are! This is Mr. Laning's place." "Laning's place," burst out Tom. "Why, to be sure it is. And that is Leo! Leo! Leo! old boy, don't you know us?" he cried. On bounded the dog, and then began to bark again, but this time joyously.
The mail for the college was in, and among it they found several letters from home and also epistles from Dora Stanhope and the Laning girls. "Here's one for Tom that will cheer him up a bit," said Dick, holding up one addressed in Nellie Laning's well-known hand. The boys sat down in an out-of-the-way corner to read their letters.
Good fortune had thrown him directly in our young friends' way. "This is really a message from the girls!" cried Tom, reading it hastily. "It is in Nellie Laning's handwriting." "And Dora Stanhope has signed her name too," added Dick. "I know her signature well." "Of course you do," put in Fred, dryly, but nobody paid attention to the sally.
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