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"Why?" asked Seabrooke, much surprised, and thinking for a moment that Charlie's headache must have produced something like delirium. "Oh, because," said Charlie, thinking how he could best warn Seabrooke and yet not betray Flagg, "because there's something in your trunk." "Of course there is," said Seabrooke, "lots of things, I should say pretty much all I possess is there."
Who was it?" Charlie's eyes turned involuntarily towards the corner of the room occupied by Lewis Flagg's bed and other belongings, and Seabrooke caught the look. Quick-sighted and quick-witted, he drew his own inferences and attacked the boy from another quarter. "It was Flagg, then," he persisted.
Seabrooke laid aside half-a-dozen articles, then suddenly started to his feet with an exclamation, holding in his hand a creased and crumpled envelope, which he hastily opened, and took from it Percy's hundred-dollar note! He turned deathly pale and for a moment stood gazing at it as if stupefied. "What is it?
You'll have him all worried into another headache, and he is not fairly over this one yet, and he'll not be fit for his journey home." Seabrooke paid no more attention to her than if she had not spoken. "Do you hear me, Henderson?" he asked. "I will know." "I won't " began Charlie again; but Mrs. Moffat interposed once more. "Mr.
Leniency, or a tender compassion for their faults, were not looked for by any of the Neville children; when these were discovered they must be prepared to bide the fullest penalty. "I don't know about Seabrooke." said Raymond Stewart. "He has not slept as soundly as usual these last few nights.
I saw them myself in a magazine at home. It must be a great thing for a fellow who has his own way to make in the world, as Seabrooke has. I know his family are as poor as rats. His father is rector of a little shabby church just out of the city, and I know they have hard work to get along. You know Seabrooke teaches for his own schooling."
Had he not felt assured that Seabrooke would abide by his word and insist upon keeping possession of the money until the day of the breaking up of school, there is little doubt that he would have allowed himself to be urged into demanding it back and spending at least some portion of it for the entertainment of his school-fellows.
She lost sight altogether of the contemptible meanness of Percy's appeal to her a helpless girl to rescue him from the consequences of his own worse than folly, but she was bitterly stung by his suggestion nay, almost demand that she should ask from their kind and indulgent uncle the means of satisfying the justly outraged Seabrooke; the uncle who had opened his heart and home to them, whom she credited with every known virtue, and for whose good opinion and approbation she looked more eagerly than she did for those of any other human being, even the beloved brother Russell.
But Percy, even in the midst of his own wrath and indignation, generously combated this; he inclined to the first supposition that Seabrooke had mislaid or lost the note, and he even maintained that it would shortly be found. But this did not make Seabrooke any more lenient in his judgment.
"Self-confident, careless fellow!" said Seabrooke to himself as the other turned away in a series of somersaults down the slope on the edge of which they had been standing. "He is so sure of himself; and yet, I know, at the very first temptation he would forget all about his debt to his sister and make way with that money.
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