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“A fellow can’t always rely too much on notes and you
can’t put a whole book in a few notes; and even if you would
be lucky enough to get the right material, you. could not
easily use it to advantage. As for your sweater,” he laughed,
“•it is against the rules to wear them.”
Blake was somewhat confounded by Richardson’s re
marks ; for, now the ruling against wearing sweaters to class
room had been mentioned, he vaguely remembered having
heard of it before.. However, nbt wishing to have his plans
entirely overthrown, he said, “Then I’ll take these cards in my
coat pocket, as I intended to do, Sweater or no sweater; and,
if 1 caft’t find a clue to most of the questions oh these, I tell
you, they’ll be fierce.”
The expression on Richardson’s , face showed that he
placed little confidence in the proposed system of notes. After
a short silence, he said, looking at his companion as if wish
ing to secure both his confidence and Cooperation, “I wonder
if there is any hope of finding the questions?”
“N—o.”
“Are you sure of that? The Prof', might have left them
in his desk and forgot to lock them up.”
After discussion Blake yielded to his friend and they
decided to go to the lecture room and make a secret, inves
tigation. Feeling the hazard too great for .the size of the
party, they decided to join a third member of the rhetoric
class, and invit^rd Benton Pierce, who from his reputation,
would be.of great service in carrying out their conspiracy*.-
“Tell Ben to bring his nippers and supply of keys and a
candle,” said Richardson as Blake left the room.
Soon the three conspirators had gathered their supplies,
stolen down the dormitory stairs without being noticed, and
started toward Villard. As the three students stalked along
with their hats pulled down partly concealing their faces,
they closely resembled burglars without masks on a house-
breaking expedition.
“I expect the doors will all be locked,” Blake remarked.
“W e’ll try the windows if they are,” suggested Pierce.