The other was even more disturbing.

It was a "crib" to the arithmetic I was doing, with all the sums beautifully worked out and the answers given.
So--I must make the confession--I astonished Miss Steele greatly for a while by my extraordinary proficiency in arithmetic, and during the same time spent my evenings in imagination on the high seas, flying aloft the black flag, and shooting across the bows of Her Majesty's ships wherever I sighted them.
This career of duplicity could not be expected to last long.

One afternoon Miss Steele brought matters to a crisis by calling upon me to work a sum on the spot which was not in the book.
I failed egregiously.
"That's singular," said she; "it's far simpler than those you brought with you to-day.

How long did it take you to do them ?" I looked hard at Miss Steele, and she looked hard at me.

The pirate game was up at last.
"About two minutes each," said I.
"_Two_ minutes ?" "Yes--as fast as I could copy them out of the crib.