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"I see," said Seabrooke; "you made up your minds that the letter was to the doctor, and were so afraid of being caught at your mean trick that you did not take time to make sure. There's the study bell." The confession and acknowledgment of their indebtedness was signed that night by both of the guilty boys.
"Whom do you accuse?" "I accuse no one," answered Raymond. "I only said such a thing might be." But Percy and Seabrooke had both scouted the idea; no one, they both said, knew that the former had intrusted his money to Seabrooke; no one had been present at the time, and both declared that they had spoken of it to no one.
He had been standing at one of the school-room windows while Seabrooke and Percy had been talking at the top of the slope, and had seen the latter take out his pocket-book, take something from it and hand it to Seabrooke, and he rightly conjectured how matters were, that Seabrooke had persuaded Percy to give him the money for safe-keeping.
Charlie had faith enough in Seabrooke to believe that he would not betray him if it were possible not to do so, and as no boy save he and Flagg had been into the dormitory, he hoped that it would not be discovered that he had been there.
But although the two boys made various errands to the hall, they found no opportunity of carrying out their dishonorable purpose before Tony had started on his round of afternoon duties, taking with him the letters for the post. Scarcely had he disappeared when Mr. Merton said to the six culprits: "Young gentlemen, you will go for afternoon exercise to walk with Mr. Seabrooke.
I've a great mind to tell Seabrooke to look in his trunk before he locks it. Perhaps he has put in something to explode or do some harm to the things in Seabrook's trunk or to himself." Charlie was a nervous child and rather imaginative, and was always conjuring up possibilities of disaster in his own mind.
The boy was subject to frightful headaches, which for the time unfitted him for all study or recitation; and Seabrooke, who was hearing the lesson in progress, had excused him from taking any part in it. These headaches were of few hours duration; but the boy needed absolute rest and quiet to enable him to conquer them.
He would have set some one to search my trunk, I suppose, that it might be found there and prove me a thief." "Percy Neville! It was not Percy! Oh, no!" exclaimed Charlie; "you ought not to say it." "Who then? Tell me at once," persisted Seabrooke, just as Mrs.
And he wondered as he spoke if he should ever bring any of his possessions back there again, whether, with this cloud, this suspicion of a possible betrayal of his trust resting upon him, he should ever return to Sylvandale school. "But " stammered Charlie, "I mean Seabrooke somebody put something there. I I saw him but he did not see me here. He's playing you a trick, I know. Do look."
Then another idea took possession of him, and one worthy of his own mean spirit, namely, that Seabrooke had been demanding and Percy giving a further prize for the silence of the former in the matter of the burnt money; and he immediately formed in his own mind a plan by which he might be revenged upon Seabrooke.
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