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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 1: The Broken Window
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You know you let me run down the village with the jelly for Mrs.Thomson's child, and as I was coming down the road I saw a boy come out of the gate of the school and run away; and then I heard a noise of broken glass, and I saw another boy jump over the hedge opposite, and run, too.

He came my way and, directly he saw me, he ran to a gate and climbed over." "Do you know who it was, Kate ?" Mrs.Ellison asked.
"Yes, mamma.

It was Tom Thorne." "Is Thomas Thorne here ?" Mrs.Ellison asked in a loud voice.
There was a general turning of the heads of the children to the point where a boy, somewhat bigger than the rest, had been apparently studying his lessons with great diligence.
"Come here, Tom Thorne," Mrs.Ellison said.
The boy slouched up with a sullen face.
"You hear what my daughter says, Tom.

What have you to say in reply ?" "I didn't throw the stone at the window," the boy replied.

"I chucked it at a sparrow, and it weren't my fault if it missed him and broke the window." "I should say it was your fault, Tom," Mrs.Ellison said sharply--"very much your fault, if you throw a great stone at a bird without taking care to see what it may hit.


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