There's not another one o' you would dare do it--not a one o' you." Then said the schoolmaster: "If there's any more o' you boys that has any such opinion o' Bart Baynes let him be man enough to step up an' say it now.

If he don't he ought to be man enough to change his mind on the spot." A number of the boys and certain of the townsfolk who had gathered about us clapped their hands.

For a long time thereafter I wondered why Henry had called me a thief.

I concluded that it was because "thief" was the meanest word he could think of in his anger.

However that might be, The Thing forsook me.