This reply was sufficiently illuminative to cause the principal to cast a keen glance at the spokesman.
“Do you really mean to tell me any member of that society would confess their guilt to you if you put them on their oath?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And may I ask what you would have done had any of them made such a confession?”
“Sent them to you, sir.”
Again did the principal look over the top of his glasses, and he realized as he never had before, what a power the Greek letter societies could be in the discipline of the school.
“But if no members of your club committed the outrage, who did?” asked Mr. Larmore finally, evidently voicing the thought that was in his mind.
“That, sir, we cannot tell you at the moment—but we will be able to later.”
“How, pray?”
“Because we shall make it a point to find out, sir. And as a first step toward that end we should be obliged if you would tell us who gave you the information.”