And it was equally characteristic of him that in his sense of injury he confounded her with the writer of the letters--as sympathizing with his correspondent in her estimate of his character, and was quite carried away with the belief that he was equally wronged by both.
It was not until he reached the schoolhouse that the evidences of last night's outrage for a time distracted his mind from his singular interview.

He was struck with the workmanlike manner in which the locks had been restored, and the care that had evidently been taken to remove the more obvious and brutal traces of burglary.

This somewhat staggered his theory that Seth Davis was the perpetrator; mechanical skill and thoughtfulness were not among the lout's characteristics.

But he was still more disconcerted on pushing back his chair to find a small india-rubber tobacco pouch lying beneath it.

The master instantly recognized it: he had seen it a hundred times before--it was Uncle Ben's.