"How happened you to be writing the sentence on your paper?"
"I was writing a letter which I intended to copy with ink, as soon as I had time."
"Have you the rest of the letter?"
"No, sir; I tore it up just now."
"Will you be kind enough to produce your uncle's letter?" said the principal, quietly.
"I don't keep my letters, sir; and I destroyed it as soon as I had read it."
"I suppose you did," replied Mr. Lowington, significantly. "But if you don't go to Germany, what then? I think you wrote the words, 'I will start with you.'"
"Yes, sir."
"Start from where?"
"From here."