What Coulter has to say, and Paxton, seems to corroborate his story." "What a terrible thing to do!" murmured Jack.
"Smith had a bunch of pawn tickets hidden away in a drawer, and they represent all the things taken from this school, and they also represent some other things, namely, those lost by you, Snow, at the time the horse ran away with you." "Then it was Cameron Smith after all whom I saw, and who robbed me when I was unconscious!" cried the acrobatic youth.
"Yes.

He was a bad man, and I have no doubt but that he was the one to lead Ritter astray." "What are you going to do with Ritter ?" "I cannot do otherwise than have him arrested.

But I hate to have such a scandal attached to the school," and Captain Putnam heaved a sigh that came from the bottom of his heart.
In the meantime, Reff Ritter had come back to Putnam Hall in another sleigh, and had gone to his dormitory to change his clothes.

Here he was confronted by Coulter and, a little later, by Nick Paxton, and a hot discussion arose, which ended in blows.

Both Coulter and Paxton fell upon the bully together and punished him severely.