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 Alma Mater and yourselves. If you have been guilty of "robbing a grave" you are liable to a long term in the penitentiary. Now, I've explained myself, Preston; have you anything to explain?"

Preston had turned his face away as if appalled by the picture of the yawning prison gates; but now he faltered out a sentence or two: "What makes you think we have a corpse? What nonsense! Who put this absurd notion in your head? Why, how could we work a scheme of that sort, even if we wanted to? The janitor"

"Has been liberally tipped;" put in Jere, smiling slyly, and with that he strode off abruptly so as to let his words soak in.

Reddy Armstrong found his adviser waiting for him with a determined expression when he called at twelve o'clock that night to investigate the biological laboratory. They proceeded across the dark, echoing campus with resolute strides—at least Jere did; Reddy trotted along behind.