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28 - Startling News. captain, “but suppose you keep a closer watch than usual on the quarters—until you go off duty at three o'clock.” With this Captain Cameron entered the house and closed the door, while Linn was conducted to the gate in grim silence, and landed outside the grounds. The lad’s pent-up feelings burst forth as he walked rapidly homeward through the cool night. He was angry at himself, at Captain Cameron, and most of all at Bruce and Steve. He also felt considerably worried. “A nice scrape I’m in!’ he muttered half aloud. ‘This is what I get for trying to do those reckless fellows a good turn, and screening them from exposure. I've lost Captain Cameron’s good opinion, and I don’t see any chance of getting it back again. There will be a stormy time when he tells my father. I suppose I'll have to face the music as I did this evening, and refuse to say any- thing. “T’ve accomplished one thing, though. Bruce and Steve won't dream of carrying out their plot now, and they ll likely abandon it altogether. When I[ was caught Bruce must have slipped into the house by a side door and gone to bed. And I'll bet anything Steve was hiding in the bushes close enough to hear all that was said on the porch. He may be there yet, but it’s most likely he slipped out of the grounds ahead of me and hurried back to the college. “TI hope he did hear everything, and will tell Bruce. Anyway, Bruce will get the story from his father, and if there’s any good ‘eft in him—and I’m sure there is—he will make up with me and drop Steve and his set. So, after all, my night’s adventure may turn out for the best.”’ The above reflections put Linn into a more easy frame — of mind by the time he reached the town. He slipped into the house, mounted noiselessly to his own room and was (0) ANCE 0)(0)(@) KS \