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 "What do you mean?"

"Why, then, when he asks me how I found out I'll say innocently, 'Preston Brown told me so.' Don't you see?" "Good. That's the dope."

Reddy did so, and reported that the old man only smiled pityingly at him, and said: "I've already heard that rumor. It's believed by some, but they may as well know they can't put me off the scent in that way. Tell Preston Brown that I give him twenty-four hours to take that body back to its proper resting-place and re-inter it before his atrocious crime is discovered. If he does not do so I will, myself. That is my ultimatum."

"Did he really say ultimatum?"

"Honestly."

"Oh, delicious!"

By this time even the faculty was taking more than a passing interest. On the way across the campus they smiled understandingly at seeing little groups of undergraduates talking and grinning. And if they saw Henderson hurrying by with his brows