The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-21
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gu LOW dTtI LlSe sH41yS1e41s DOOlA OI al1O SlD- sent Penrod an inquiry as to the frac- tional consequences of dividing seven teen apples fairly among three boys, and she was surprised and displeased 10 receive no answer, although to the best of her Knowledge and belief he was looking fizedly at her. She repeat ed her question crisply without visible effect then summoned him by name with increasing asperity. Twice she called htIn. while all his fellow pupils turned toassssre St the gazing boy. She adxaneed a step from the platform ssenrod Schofelds s'
 ssOhs my goodness le lie shouted sud denly an't you keep still min min
 cHAPTER VI
 unols John.
 M IsS SPENCE gasped So did
 tlle pupils. The whole room
 Elornerate 4.O-e-o-ozags
 As Tor PanTod himself, the wstlls raelad with the shock He sat with hsa mouth open "a mere lump of stupe- Taefions For the appalling words that. he had hurled at the teacher were as plicabie to him to any other who heard t1lezn-
 NcEAtng Is more frea acheroHS than the human msnd; nothing else so loves to play the Iscaraot Even when patient B buIlted into senblanee of order and tzaisairsg # may prove but. base anG shaft5 servant And PenroJgs mind was nott lis servant It was master. with the April winds whiuns. and t had just played him diabolical trick The very jolEsswith which he came back to the sehoolroom in the xnitIst or his faneied flight jRrred his Ga drean utterly out of him and he sat open nlouthed in horror at what l1e had said
 1lle uIlqn II1cus gaspsof awe was pro- tEa eAed Miss Spence,F however final Eecoyered her breath and, returning deliperately to the platform, faced the school. And then, for a little while,' as EathetIe stories sometimes recount thing was very still.'1, It was so fffsin fact, that Penrodss newborn lletoriety could almost be heard grow ing. This grisl5s silence v as at last nroEeneby the teacher.
 .IseIrod Sehofeid, stand upy'
 T1se miserable ehild obeyed
 hat did you mean by speaking 10 me 1n tllat t way s
 He hung his head, rnked the floor with the side of his shoe swayed, syyafleEsad, 8ookea suddenly at his IlaIads fth tile ss1r Of never having seen tIiern Befofe then claspcd them behind him The school sfli yered in a1ic horror every fascinated eye upon him. yet there was not soul in 4he rooEa but was profellndly grat efuf 10 1im kor fl1e sensation including the offended teacher herself. CnhapI1f1y aH fhfs gratitude was uneonscious and altogether different from the kind sFhieh Tesnlts in tes1i1nonials and lov- ing eups, On the contrary!
 'e1lrou schofeld 7
 Ie gulped.
 : 4 las;zzsers alaeel " hy did you El9eak to me. i1k e t55lal
 ural.se 6 cdltInlae
 Speak out.
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 That gsl1l net ds.' she returned ssfrls1y sI w.sl fo know Immediate lv wAy 5oa spoke as yoal Gid, '' The stricizen 2eTrod answered help; lessly:
 Bacause was just thinking. 7
 Upon the ver raes be couid have offered no lsrolel. truthful explana tion. ItwasN all lae knew about if.
 Thinking whit z
 Just tia.Tl.zisl9's
 Miss Spencess expressipn gave evi- dence that herspo of self restraint vas undergoing q remarkable test. Howevers. after taking coull:se1 with herself, she com rhansIed:
 Come here!
 He shuf7e ed forward. ard she placed | hair uPon the platform near her own
 Sit there!'
 Then tBut not at all as if nothing had happened5 she continued the les son in arithmetic. Spiritually the children may have learned a Nesson in very small Fractions, indeed. as they gazed at the fragment of sin before them on the stool of penitence They Rll stared at him attentively. with hard and Isassionately interested eyes h which there was never one trace of pity. It cannot be said with precision that he writhed His movement was more slew, continuous sqnirm. effect ed with q ghastly nTtion of Ian g1id isdifFerenee while his gaze, in the &asort fo escape the marble hearted glare Of his SC hoolfnates, affixed itself with pparent pefnnanenee to the waisteoa Bntfon of James Russell Lowell just. above the .sa'' in Rus salIss
 Classes game a1sd classes went. grill ing hin ftl1 eyes Newconaers re- ceived Ella story Of the .erifn e in dark ling w14isneEs alld the outeast sat end sqHirTned and squirmed ard kquirped Be Eaid one O. two things WiEh hig spine V 1afch q prof fessional