"Now, for the boy----- ?" "I'm not going to have him arrested," replied the principal, "unless the superintendent or the Board of Education so direct me." From the other side of the doorway could be heard a stifled cry of delight.
"Then we may as well be going, doctor.

You'll come to the station with me, won't you ?" "In one moment," replied the principal.

He turned to Dick, sorrowfully holding out his hand.
"Prescott, whatever I may do will be the result of long and careful thought, or at the order of the superintendent or of the Board of Education.

If you really are guilty, I hope you will pause, think and resolve, ere it is too late, to make a man of yourself hereafter.

If you are innocent, I hope, with all my heart, that you will succeed in proving it.