Capitolo 78
"I responded only to Your question and I defended me", answered Peak.
There was a small murmur among the pupils, while showing that them
understanding was with the boy that had been so causelesslies accused from the
principal.
"Make to keep silent!" Exclaimed Socrates, irritated. "Now", he continued, while turning
to Peak, "from when you know who put the portfolio in the pocket of Roscoe--a
very extraordinary affirmation, by the way--desire you deign him to inform me
who did him/it?"
"James Smith did him/it!" it said Peak, while looking above at the manager
nephew that such attack was half waiting himself/herself/itself.
"Be a scurvy lie!" Cried Jim, but its face was whitened, its way
it was nervous and confused, and he seemed guilty, if he were this way.
"My nephew?" Asked Socrates, flurried.
"Yes, gentleman."
"It is not so, Uncle Socrates", said Jim, excited. "I will lick her,
Platt inside, when we go out of school."
"You forget him, James", Socrates said with a meekness him
you/he/she would not have assumed with some other pupil.
"I implore Your pardon, Uncle Socrates" it said Jim, with contrition "but
I cannot be silent when I am accused of things I don't do."
"You to be sure has some excuse, but you should remember the
respects you owe to me. Didn't you do him/it then?"
"Certainly not, gentleman."
"Then it appears, Platt, that you have stuck out complaint against
Your individual-pupil", Mr. Said Smith, severely. "I can conceive of
nothing the meaner."
"The Mr. Smith", said Hector "that right has Him to say that the
is position false? Is it the refusal of Your nephew? If he took the
portfolio he is able, you clearly deny him/it."
"Then You!" Socrates ritorguto.
"Nobody saw me conceal him/it", said Hector, meaningfully.
Then the rose of Wilkins.
"The Mr. Smith", he said, "I have some evidence to offer."
"Out with him, gentleman", says the manager, angrily for him you/he/she was fighting
against a sentence of iaward that his/her nephew was really the guilty one
party.
"I was walking along the corridor around the duration of which Platt speaks