THE APPEAL.
Phonny handed him the paper.
“There,” said he, “is a case for you to decide.”
Wallace took the paper and read it. He said nothing, but seemed for a moment to be thinking on the subject, and then he took his pen and wrote several lines under the question. Phonny supposed that he was writing his answer.
After his writing was finished, Wallace folded up the paper, and told Phonny that he must not read it until he had given it to Beechnut.
“How did you know that it was from Beechnut?” said Phonny.
“I knew by the handwriting,” said Wallace. “Besides, I knew that there was nobody else here who would have referred such a question to me, in such a scientific way.”
So Phonny took the paper and carried it down to Beechnut.