“Freeman, will you answer truthfully the questions that I am going to ask you?” said the professor.
He was feeling greatly disheartened, for he did not believe that the boys that he had questioned were all of them innocent or ignorant, yet every one had declared himself so.
“Yes, sir.” Freeman’s voice was low, and he did not look up as he answered.
“Do you know who called out the wrong order to Company B last Thursday?”
“No, sir.”
“Do you know who threw the cracker at Company D yesterday?”
“No, sir.”
“Have you any knowledge whatever about these doings—who suggested them, or who had any part in carrying them out?”
Lower yet dropped the boy’s head, and his voice was almost inaudible, but again the answer was “No, sir.”
The professor’s tone changed then. There was a ring of contempt in it as he said curtly:—