"But when you have learned all there is to learn will you come again?"
"No. For then I shall write a letter to my mother."
Some good spirit must have whispered to this fellow not to laugh at these words, for he could not have anticipated the box on the ears I would have given him, because he could not for an instant forget that I was a grammar-school boy, and he a first-year law student.
CHAPTER VII
THE SECRET WRITINGS
One evening Lorand came to me and laid before me a bundle of papers covered with fine writing.
"Copy this quite clearly by to-morrow morning. Don't show the original to any one, and, when you have finished, lock it up in your trunk with the copy, until I come for it."
I set to work in a moment and never rose from my task until I had completed it.
Next morning Lorand came for it, read it through, and said: "Very good," handing me two pieces of twenty.