Jack Ranger's Western Trip From Boarding School to Ranch and Range

next morning by a

here?" h

s the reply. "Dr, Mead wi

ed and saw it was after eight o'clock. "No wonder, being up half the

o Dr. Mead's office, where he found the same gathe

e school, "the time you asked for ha

s hearing be adjourned to the laboratory. I also request that Sam Chalme

them?" asked Dr. Mead,

want to make a demonstration, and

. "This boy is guilty and he knows it. He is only

ir to grant his req

l you kindly summon t

ase see that the la

ral bundles, while Socker, the janitor, bore a rack of test tubes he had take

anded Adrian, haughtily. "I

harply, glancing at the new student, who seeme

" asked Jack,

lear yourself," was the reply. "But as you have given a certain publicity

t was seen to shift about. He even started to walk around as though to leave the room, but the monitor stood at the

nd looked at him as if inviting him to speak. "Perhaps if the matter has been made public the fellows who took the bell would

a duster. "You will observe," he went on, "that there are several brown lines on it. I have measured these and they are exactly

better evidence than

im

e rust from that runs down inside a bell, and gets on the edges. I took some iron rust from the clapper of the stolen bell and placed it in a test tube. I assumed, for the purpose of experimenting, th

s and soon the brown mixt

on. "Here is a solution made from scraping the lines on

k dropped some of the mixture into the s

or coming in both mixtures from the same strength of chemicals that I used, sh

pt that you might have worn

prove that the duster is not mine, and that I neve

e Jack took a white object, with brown spots. Walk

wrist!" exclaimed the spo

eming to realize he

l of that," Jack continued, thrusti

ame that you used, and which enabled me to

d it that night. I have also to show this article, which was picked up in you

that?" aske

r. Mead said. "Who, of our students,

d automobile garment to young Bagot. "I had to borrow it from your room, but I am through with it now. You

out Adrian, but Jack sto

om you or any one else

I ask that you inqui

and Fred Kaler when t

au

?" Dr. Mead a

he others agreed with his testimony. Jack told the s

thing else?"

ero's answer, "unless Ba

. "I demand that he be punished, Dr. Mead," and Mr. Grimm did not even

y, Bagot?" asked the

es point str

it being only a harmless jok

hoose to come forward and admit their part, well and good. I will go no further with this, since the chief culprit is known

ill be lenient. I will suspend you for one week, and you are

huffled from the laboratory. The teachers followed Dr. Mead o

were such a che

on the jew's-harp and mouth organ at

, "it came out about

e, as he walked off, stretchi

been vindicated, and there was an

t Anderson. "We ought to do someth

sult to you is one to all this crowd you travel with. I'll bet Dr. Mead has a sort of idea that some of us had a hand i

h-h-h-is t-t-t-t-ti-"

his necktie?" ask

s-s-said n-n-

ing to, and I wanted to

a

-m-meant his

Fred. "All aboard! Whe

ll

ill's relief. "But I don't want to do anything l

find a plan," Sam went

ck

ys ready for anyth

am concluded. "But we'd better hustle now