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"Some one must respond to the speech, and thank the gentleman for his very complimentary gift," suggested the doctor, and with almost one accord the Hilltop boys selected Jack Sheldon as their spokesman.
Now we've got a hold on Sheldon. The son of a bank robber and he said his father was dead." "I'll bet he was in the robbery himself," muttered Merritt. "Anyhow, we can make it look so," snarled the other with an evil look.
He couldn't help calling aloud that name, even though the soberer part of his brain knew there could be no answer. "Shelly!" The blond head turned, and blue eyes looked at him, startled, across a bowed shoulder. Drew's puzzlement was complete. Not Sheldon, of course, but who? The other's open surprise changed to wide-eyed recognition first. "Drew!"
Herring and Merritt and others like them were not satisfied to accept Jack Sheldon on the same footing as had Percival and the better class of boys at the Academy. Herring had been used to doing about as he pleased with the new boys and any interference seemed like a curtailing of his rights as he looked at it, and he greatly resented it.
Sheldon, as he turned the envelope about in his hands, staring at it absently. "I ought to make sure of that. The London postmark is nearly three weeks old." He pondered for some moments, and then went to the cupboard in which he kept the materials wherewith to replenish or to make a fire.
She was very cordial, very eloquent upon the subject of her headache, and very much inclined to go to the theatre, notwithstanding that ailment, when she heard that Mr. Hawkehurst had been kind enough to bring her a box. "Diana and I could go," she said, "if we can manage to be in time after our six o'clock dinner. Mr. Sheldon does not care about theatres. All the pieces tire him.
In that respect at least I had some advantage over both. October 13th. This morning's post brought me a brief scrawl from Sheldon. "Come back to town directly. I have found the registry of Matthew Haygarth's marriage." And so I turn my back on Ullerton; with what rejoicing of spirit it is not in language to express.
Sheldon I have never been able to remember those words, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged. His kindness touches me to the very heart, and I feel it all the more keenly because of my injustice." She followed her stepfather into the prim little study. There was no fire, and the room was colder than a vault on this bleak December day.
"I expect so," he returned, gazing hard into her smiling face. As her smile grew brighter, his own face darkened, until she began to look embarrassed at his boorish temper. "I want you to tell me, once for all, Miss Sheldon, that you are here of your own choice and free will," he blurted out. "If I'm uncivil or rude, excuse me. I can't feel any other way until I know this.
As the work I am now employed in is quite new to me, and I am to keep Sheldon posted up in this business day by day, I have decided on jotting down the results of my inquiries in a kind of diary. Instead of writing my principal a formal letter, I shall send a copy of the entries in the diary, revised and amended.
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