Part 9 (1/2)
”I et at the bottom of this affair,” said Captain Putnam
”The honor of the academy is at stake”
He talked to all of those who had lost anything and proood Then he asked each if he had any suspicions regarding the thief or thieves No one had, and for the tiround
Those who had been at the feast hardly knehat to say or to do
Should they tell the captain of the strange figure Sam had seen in the hallway?
”I'll tell hi,” said Sa, and shi+elding a thief is another”
”But what can you tell?” asked Fred ”You do not know that that person, was the thief”
”More than likely he was,” came from dick
”And if he as he?” went on Fred ”If you tell Captain Putnaet us all into trouble”
”I vote that Sam makes a clean breast of it,” said Frank, and Larry said the same This was just before dinner, and iest Rover went up to the master of the Hall and touched him on the arm
”I would like to speak to you in private and at once, Captain Putnam,” he said
”Very well, Rover; come with me,” was the reply, and Captain Putnam led the way to his private office
”I suppose I should have spoken of this before,” said Saet the others into trouble As it is, Captain Putnam, I want to take the entire blame on my own shoulders”
”The bla to tell you about We voted to tell you, but I don't want to be a tattle-tale and get the others into trouble along with me”
”I will hear what you have to say,” returned the master of the Hall briefly
”Well, sir, you knoas dick's birthday yesterday, and we boys thought ould celebrate a bit So we had a little blow-out in our rooht?”
”The noise you heard was fro at,” stauard out in the hallway to keep watch”
”Well?”
”I was out in the hall part of the ti around in a most suspicious manner
It went into Dormitory No 3 and then came out and disappeared toward the back stairs”
”This is interesting Who was the party?”
”I couldn't make out”