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look around or appear to share in the glee. He tried to assume
the woe-begone expression worn in former rhetoric
hours ; and, though his answers were all prepared, he inten
tionally inserted some faults, so that their correctness, might
be unnoticeable.
At last thé examination was finished, and the students
gone. The professor spent the afternoon correcting papers.
He worked unremittingly for some time, and becoming
weary, got up to raise the windçw. He leaned out, gazing at
the picturesque campus decked in all the beauties of summer.
Looking at the evenly mowed lawn, he noticed two well
marked footprints. On examining more closely, he saw some
thing beneath half concealed in the grass. Now his suspi
cion was thoroughly aroused. He went out hurriedly and
picked up the object, which proved to be Morris Richardson’s
receipt book.
“Can it be possible ! I never dreamed that a . student
could be so little. If he found the questions, it can easily be
detected on his paper now I have the clue. Doubtless, there
were more than one. I’ll try to find out.”
After close inspection, none of the papers revealed the
fault except Richardson’s.. Thinking .it useless to make a
great disturbance about the affair, and that Richardson might
possibly be the only guilty party, and resolving never to leave
questions within the reach: of such unreliable students again,
the professor pinned the receipt book inside Richardson’s
examination paper, wrote beneath it, “This little book found
under my window does not better your grade,” and gave him
an “E.”
—1904.