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THE boys who attended Mr. Morton’s Select School in the village of Laketon did not profess to know more than boys of the same age and advantages elsewhere; but of one thing they were absolutely certain, and that was that no teacher ever rang his bell to assemble the school or...
THE boys at Mr. Morton’s Select School were not the only people at Laketon who were curious about Paul Grayson. Although the men and women had daily duties like those of men and...
9. CHAPTER VIII.FOR a day or two after the terrible collapse of the Indian theory Paul Grayson kept himself aloof from the other boys to such an extent that he made them feel very uncomfortable...
7. CHAPTER VI.OF the many boys who were curious about Paul Grayson’s antecedents, no one devoted more attention to the subject than Benny Mallow. Benny was short, and Paul was tall; Benny was...
10. CHAPTER IX.MR. Morton’s school closed on the last day of June, and the parents of the pupils were so well pleased with the progress their sons had made that almost all of them thanked the...
5. CHAPTER IV.AS Benny Mallow hid himself in a barn in the yard into which he had jumped, he had only one distinct thought in his mind: he wished that the Italian had never come to Laketon at...
2. CHAPTER I.THE boys who attended Mr. Morton’s Select School in the village of Laketon did not profess to know more than boys of the same age and advantages elsewhere; but of one thing they...
6. CHAPTER V.ALTHOUGH the people of Laketon could not forgive Mr. Morton and Paul Grayson for not talking more about themselves and their past lives, they could not deny that both the teache...
12. CHAPTER XI.“WHAT do you think was the counterfeiter’s excuse for running away?” asked Sam Wardwell of Canning Forbes, on meeting him at the Post-office, to which both boys had been sent by...
11. CHAPTER X.ON the morning after Benny Mallow’s party hardly a boy started for the brook or the woods. This was not because the dissipation of the previous night had made them over-weary, o...
13. CHAPTER XII.“I’ve had lots of fun trying to puzzle it out,” said Ned Johnston to Napoleon Nott on the afternoon of the day of the trial, “but now I wish that I hadn’t. Think of poor Paul!”
8. CHAPTER VII.WHEN Benny Mallow went to bed at night, after the great exhibition, he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to ask what the grand total of the receipts for the Beantassel f...
3. CHAPTER II.THE afternoon session of Mr. Morton’s Select School was but little more promising of revelations about the new boy than the morning had been. Most of the boys returned earlier t...
1. CHAPTER XII.