Quite likely you failed, since
that impression seems to be vivid in your thoughts. Were you so
reported?"
"Yes, sir. Have you got that paper, professor?"
"I _have_ it. I should not say I have _got_ it."
"May I see it?" Will's manner was subdued, but there was a flush on his
cheeks which those who knew him well would at once have understood.
"I will look it over with you," assented the professor. "It is against
our rules to return papers to students, and I fawncy our rules are made
to be obeyed, not ignored."
"Yes, sir." Will was hardly aware of what he was saying so impatient and
eager was he for the paper to be produced.
The professor unlocked a drawer in his desk and drew forth a package of
papers that were carefully tied with a piece of ribbon. Even the knot
was exact and the loop on one side did not vary from that on the other
by the smallest fraction. In his impatience Will noticed even this
detail, but it was ignored in a moment when the professor slowly and
with care examined the headlines of the papers and at last drew forth
one which he placed on the desk in front of him and said: "Ah, yes.
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