"To prosecute him in court would create a terrible scandal! I would rather pay for the stolen things out of my own pocket!" Reff Ritter had indeed run away.

By some means unknown he managed to get to a town at the end of the lake and there boarded a midnight train bound West.

He was traced as far as Chicago, but that was the last seen or heard of him until many years later, when it was learned that he had gone to Alaska with some gold miners.

He got very little gold for a large amount of hard work, and drifted from place to place, picking up odd jobs that offered themselves.
The announcement that Ritter was the fellow who had perpetrated the many thefts at Putnam Hall created strong excitement in the school.

But the matter was hushed up as much as possible by Captain Putnam, and the master saw to it that every cadet got back the things that belonged to him, and also squared matters with the teachers.
In due course of time Cameron Smith was tried for the robbery of Point View Lodge and was sent to prison for a term of years.