I will not deny that I have felt the injustice of the cloud that has hung over me for the last few months.

Anyone of you would have felt it under the same circumstances.

But it is past---forgotten, and I know how happy you all are that the truth has been discovered." There was a moment's silence.

Then Dick asked, as he had so often done before: "Is there any further business to come before the class meeting ?" Silence.
"A motion to adjourn is in order." The motion was put, offered and carried.

Dick Prescott stepped down from the platform, a man restored to his birthright of esteem from his comrades..