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Mr Paton's attention was aroused; he pushed the lid off the desk, and saw at once that it had been broken open. "Who has broken open my desk?" No answer. He looked very grave, but said nothing, looking for his imposition-book. "Where is my imposition-book?" No answer. "And where is my ?" Mr Paton stopped, and looked with the greatest eagerness over every corner of the desk.
The hand that would burn a valuable manuscript would fire a rick of hay." "O sir," said Henderson, starting up and interrupting him, "we were all very nearly as bad. It was the rest of us that burnt the imposition-book; Evson had nothing to do with that."
"Here's the imposition-book for you, and here goes leaf number one into the fire; you can tear out the next if you like, Franklin." "Very well," said Franklin; "in for a penny in for a pound; there goes the second leaf." "And here the third; over ankles over knees," said Barton, another of those present. "Proverbial Fool-osophy," observed Henderson, contemptuously, as Burton handed him the book.
There was deep silence. "Once again," he asked, "where is my imposition-book?" "Burnt, sir; burnt, sir," said one or two voices, hardly above a whisper. "And my manuscript?" he asked, in a louder voice, and in still greater agitation. "Surely, surely, you cannot have been so thoughtless, so incredibly unjust as to "
"Where is the manuscript I left here with my imposition-book?" he said in a tone of the most painful anxiety. "I do hope and trust," he said, turning pale, "that none of you have been wicked enough to injure it," and here his voice faltered. "When I tell you that it was of the utmost value, I am sure that if any of you have concealed or taken it, you will give it back at once."
Henderson had forgotten for the moment that he at least had had no share in burning the imposition-book, for his warm quick heart could not bear that these blows should fall unbroken on his friend's head. But his generous effort failed; for Mr Percival, barely noticing the interruption, continued, "The imposition-book? I know nothing about that.
Walter," he continued, in a lower voice, "I hope that you'll have nothing to do with this humbug?" "I will though, Henderson; if I'm to have nothing but canings and floggings, I may just as well be caned and flogged for something as for nothing." "The desk's locked," said Anthony; "we shan't be able to get hold of the imposition-book."
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