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No sooner had twelve o'clock struck, than the whole school broke up into
knots of buzzing and eager talkers.
"I wonder who did it," said a dozen voices at once.
"The writing was undoubtedly Williams'," suggested some.
"And did you notice how red and pale he got when the Doctor spoke to
him, and how he hung his head?"
"Yes; and one knows how he hates Gordon."
"Ay; by the bye, Gordon set him a Georgic only on Thursday, and he has
been swearing at him ever since."
"I noticed that he stayed in after all the rest last night," said
Barker.
"Did he? By Jove, that looks bad."
"Has any one charged him with it?" asked Duncan.
"Yes," answered one of the group: "but he's as proud about it as
Lucifer, and is furious if you mention it to him. He says we ought to
know him better than to think him capable of such a thing."
"And quite right, too," said Duncan. "If he did it, he's done something
totally unlike what one would have believed possible of him."
The various items of evidence were put together, and certainly they
seemed to prove a strong case against Eric.


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