could have heard a pin drop, so quiet was it. The hard breathing of the boys and girls

principal sharply. "The

re for the guilty ones

l on the steps. Then,

something e

Bert glanced from side to side as he sat in his seat, wonde

ly. "Very well. You may all go to your class-rooms, with the exception of

g at him curiously, as did other girls. Bert was glad Flossie and Freddie were not in the room, for the kindergarten children did n

ce! It did not seem possible. And there was but one explanation of it. It must be in connect

spoke aloud. It sounded like Danny Rugg, but poor Bert wa

d. He met many glances that were kind, and others, from Danny Rugg's friends, that were not. Nan waved her hand at her brother as she passed him, and Bert smiled at h

ome writing paper, Ber

edy sent m

as. I guess Mr. Tetlow thinks I had s

d y

exclaimed B

e other boy the package of writing paper Miss Ke

er and I must treat it seriously. Now again, I ask if you have anything to

know that I have anything to say, i

at you had anythi

er helped roll i

know w

haven't the

e not anywhe

, s

sk you, have yo

s pocket, and then, as he recalled some

but I haven't

Mr. Tetlow, sudden

t to know that it was his knife. It had his name on the

s mine," he

do you know where i

low, I haven

p on the steps almost under the big snowbal

have to say that I don't

my knife the

much as though you were one of the boys who had played this trick-a trick that has made considerable trouble

't believe in that sort of thing. But I am very sorry that you did not admi

ing into his eyes. "I don't know how my knife got there, but I do

incipal was silent.

against you I am sorry to say. And this trick was one I can not easily overlook. Rolling the snowball on the steps was bad enough,

lying on top of the ice I might think you had come up merely to look at the big ball, and had dropped your property there. But the knife was found frozen fast, showi

d not leave my knife there. I remember now-I can expl

etlow quietly, "I'll he

rt