Now, if anything grave had happened to the missing boy, Fisher major felt that on his shoulders rested all the blame.
But his misery was turned into rage when, just before bedtime, a fag came over with the following letter from Dangle:-- "I am not surprised you should be so ready to be imposed upon.

You have done mischief enough already; but you have been robbed all the same.
Any one but a simpleton would see that the turning up of the money just when it did was a suspicious coincidence.

What could be easier than for the thief either to impose on Widow Wisdom, and get her to bring back the money with the story about the shirt; or else, during one of his frequent visits there, as soon as he saw that he was found out, to slip it into the pocket himself! Where he got it from I don't pretend to guess; but I don't mind betting that somebody in the School is poorer by L4 10 shillings for this tardy act of restitution.

It deceived no one but you.

`None are so blind,' etcetera.
"R.