Now let us dismiss the subject and go on with our lessons." While the master was speaking Ripon and Sankey had glanced for a moment at each other; the same thought was in both their minds.

After school was over they joined each other in the yard.
"Was Mather in the washing room with the others ?" Sankey asked eagerly.
"He was, but he came up last," Ripon replied.

"You know he generally saunters along in a lazy way and is the last to get in.

So he was today, but I don't know that he was later than usual." "I think, Ripon, we ought to speak to Porson." "I think so too," Ripon rejoined gravely; "it is too serious to keep to ourselves.

Any ordinary thing I would not peach about on any account, but a disgraceful theft like this, which throws a doubt over us all, is another thing; the honor of the whole school is at stake.