“For—for lying, sir.”
“For what?”
“For—for not telling the truth, sir.”
“H—m.”
The doctor removed his spectacles and polished them slowly, very slowly, as if he were doing some hard thinking. Then he replaced them and faced the class.
“I—hem—I will exempt you from punishment. It isn’t what you deserve, not by a great deal, but—you may thank Satterlee 2d.”
Satterlee 2d’s popularity began at that moment.