In Barracks and Wigwam — page 50: what you’re looking at

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“mRATI «tS Sf up _ PU tae) Oo Ion at i ¥ - ae | ~ bs F t, ~ 40. A False Accusation. angrily, ‘but you are on a wrong tack somewhere. Look here, do you fellows know that I was in the grotinds of the Indian school lJast night ?”’ “Do we know it?” laughed Steve. “Well, I should say so! And others know it, too. [ never gave you credit for so much cheek ‘3 “But do you know that I heard every word you and Bruce said when you were hidden in the bushes?” Linn interrupted; “that I heard you laying your dastardly plans to. steal the money and fasten the crime on Deer- foot? - Now deny it, if you can. I screened you last night, to my own cost, but the truth has got to come out ~ now. It was only too evident that this was news to Bruce and Steye—that they had heretofore been under the im- pression that Linn had not overheard a word of their conversation. The guilty lads stood silent and trembling, looking furtively at each other. It was pitiful to see the terror and confusion stamped on their faces. Steve edged back, and leaned half defiantly against a tree. Bruce struggled hard to keep his self-control, and then broke down utterly, bursting into tears. “You won't tell, Linn, will you?” he whimpered, im- ploringly. “Now, when it’s too late I see what a fool I’ve © been. Help me out of this scrape, Linn, and I'll never get. into another one. If father finds out money.” “We did,” sobbed Bruce, “and | won't shut up. I wish I'd never seen you, Steve Halsey. It’s well enough for you to talk, with your father dead,-and only a guardian to get in a row with, But look at me! My father will take me away from college, and make me enlist as a pri- _ vate in the army—he threatened to do it over and over “Don’t confess to a he. You know we never stole that (ele) ey com IO (S.