This paper contains all the salient features of your demonstration.

Can you explain this fact, Mr.Prescott ?" The astounded yearling felt as though his brain were reeling.
He went hot and cold, all in a flash.
In the same moment the other men of the section sat as though stunned.

All lying, deceit and fraud are so utterly detested at West Point that to a cadet it is incomprehensible how a comrade can be guilty of such an offence.
It seemed to Prescott like an age ere he could master his voice.
"I never saw that paper, sir, before you asked me to pick it up!" "But it dropped from under your handkerchief, Mr.Prescott.

Can you account for that ?" "I cannot, sir." Captain Abbott looked thoughtfully, seriously, at Cadet Richard Prescott.

The instructor had always liked this young man, and had deemed him worthy of all trust.