The K.C.found it so at this moment.

Dick Prescott stood rigidly at attention, a fine, soldierly looking young fellow.

His face, his eyes, had all the stamp of truth and manliness.

Yet the suspicion had arisen with these two tacs.
that Mr.Prescott was a young man who was extremely clever in giving truthful answers that shielded offending cadets.
"You have stated your position unreservedly and exactly, Mr.
Prescott ?" inquired Colonel Strong at last.
"Yes, sir." "You are certain that you have not more than the merest suspicion of the cadet off whom you have been speaking?
"I am absolutely certain, sir." "How does it happen, Mr.Prescott, that you have this suspicion, and absolutely nothing more ?" A cadet is not permitted to hesitate.

He must answer not only truthfully, but instantly.