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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 3: The Burglary At The Squire's
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Have you any opinion about it ?" "My opinion is that of Reuben, himself," the schoolmaster said.

"He believes that someone did it who had a grudge against him, on purpose, to throw suspicion on him." "Who should have a grudge against him ?" the squire asked.
"Well, squire, there was one boy in the village who had, rightly or wrongly, a grudge against Reuben.

That is Tom Thorne.

Reuben has not a shadow of evidence that it was this boy, but the lad has certainly been his enemy ever since that affair of breaking the windows of the school, just before I came here.

Thorne, you know, did it, but allowed Reuben to be punished for the offence; and the truth would never have been known had it not been, as I heard, that your daughter happened to see the stone thrown.


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