The use of the magnifying glass makes it even more plain." Then Mr.Morton sat down.
"Now, young Mr.Drayne, what have you to say ?" demanded the presiding officer.
"Why should I say anything, sir ?" demand Drayne, with an impudent assumption of swaggering ease.
"Then you admit the truth of the charges, Mr.Drayne ?" "I do not." "Then you must really have something to say." "I have heard a charge made against me.

I am waiting to have it proved." "Do you admit," asked the presiding officer, "that these copies of the code were written on your father's office machine ?" "I do not, sir.

But, if it be true, is that any proof that I made those copies of the signal code?
Is it argued that I alone have access to the typewriter in my father's office.

For that matter, if I have an enemy in the High School and I must have several---wouldn't it be possible for that enemy, or several of them, to slyly break into my father's office and use that particular typewriting machine ?" This was confidently delivered, and it made an undoubted impression on at least two or three members of the Board.

But now Mr.Morton broke in, quietly: "I thought some such attempt as this might be made.