“No, sir—none.”
“Why?”
“I don’t quite know why it was so at first, but now—now I don’t wonder at it.” Clark spoke the last words so low that his teacher had to bend his head to catch them.
“I would like a talk with you, my boy. Can you come to my house this evening?” he asked presently.
“I am not at liberty until nine o’clock,” Clark answered.
“Not any evening?” said Mr. Horton in a tone of surprise.
“No, sir—except Sunday. I take notes in shorthand every evening from six to nine.”
“You don’t have very much time for study, then?”
“No, not very much; but I don’t have to spend very much time on the Latin, as I have read Cicero before.”
“Indeed? Then I see you did not need any notes for it.”