“Um! Sit down. Harry Blossom.”
“I have nothing to say, sir,” answered Harry, as he arose.
“You know nothing?”
“I have nothing to say.”
“Bart Conners!”
“I have nothing to say, Mr. Crabtree,” answered the captain of Company B.
“Augustus Coulter!”
As Coulter arose, Jack, Pepper, Andy, and a number of others eyed him sharply.
“I—er—I don’t know anything much,” stammered Dan Baxter’s crony. “I was—er—very sleepy last night. I heard some noise, but I didn’t pay any attention.”
“Really?” returned the teacher, sarcastically. “You must have slept very sound, indeed, not to have heard the gun-shots.”