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Dora told me that he was terribly angry over having been sent to Chicago on a wild-goose chase." "I wish he had remained out there." "So do all of us," said Nellie Laning. "He seems bound to marry aunty, in spite of our opposition and Dora's." "How is your aunt now?" "She is not very well. Do you know, I think Mr. Crabtree exercises some sort of a strange influence over her."
The former teacher's trial lasted longer than expected, and the jury were out the best part of a night before arriving at a verdict. In the end, much to the Rover boys' surprise, Crabtree was sentenced to six months in the county jail, instead of to several years in the State's prison. "I can't understand it," muttered Dick, when, they were on the way back to the Hall.
"I haven't a sixpence, Sir Abraham," said the warden. "God bless me! Why, Mr Harding, how do you mean to live?" Mr Harding proceeded to explain to the man of law that he meant to keep his precentorship, that was eighty pounds a year; and, also, that he meant to fall back upon his own little living of Crabtree, which was another eighty pounds.
Go on, I shan't say a word. What a remarkable boy! But it must be the military training that does it." As well as possible Dick told all that had happened during the night. Chief Burger interrupted him a score of times, but at last the tale was finished. At the conclusion the chief closed one eye suggestively. "And don't you know where this Josiah Crabtree is now?" he asked.
Then Josiah Crabtree came up the plank on hands and knees, looking for all the world like a half-drowned rat. "Well, we are no better off than we were before," remarked Sam, after Josiah Crabtree had disappeared in the direction of the cabin and the two boys had walked forward by themselves. "No, we are no better off, but we have succeeded in rescuing Mrs.
We are studying the fauna and flora of central Africa at least, they are doing so under my guidance." "They must be learning a heap under you." "Do you mean to say I am not capable of teaching them!" cried Josiah Crabtree, wrathfully.
Yesterday I saw Dan Baxter, who seems to be hanging around this neighborhood a good deal. He wanted to speak to me, but I did not give him the chance. I wish he would go away, for he looks to me like a very evil-minded person. It is strange, but Mr. Crabtree thinks a good deal of him, and has told my mother so. He says it is nonsense to put Mr. Baxter down as a criminal."
"You look out, Tom, that you don't get into disgrace the first thing, as you did when we went to Putnam Hall Don't you remember that giant firecracker, and how Josiah Crabtree locked you up in a cell for setting it off?" "Ugh! Will I ever forget it!" groaned Tom, making a wry face. "But I got the best of old Crabtree, didn't I?" he continued, his face brightening.
The morning passed slowly, and at noon Pepper was given a bowl of soup and several additional slices of unbuttered bread. The soup was hot and good, and he wished there was more of it. "Mr. Crabtree says that is all you can have," said the waiter who served him. "Crabbed Crabtree!" muttered Pepper, and said no more.
"It came from the carriage." "Mumps, you're nothing but a sneak and tattle-tale," was the reply to this, from several older cadets; and, afraid of having his ears boxed on the sly, John Fenwick, nicknamed Mumps by everybody in the Hall, ran off. "Which of you fired the cracker?" demanded Josiah Crabtree, advancing to the carriage step. There was no reply, and he turned to the, driver.
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