"Do? Oh, nothing! I only think that it may be as well if I have this banknote photographed. You can have it after that, and we will share the profits."
Then Brown laughed, and clapped him on the back.
"You are a smart fellow!" he cried.
And the man answered.
"There are some people living who will find that out to their cost one of these fine days!"
CHAPTER XIX THE LAME HORSE ONCE MORE
If Elgert and Dobson and the two juniors who had overheard that conversation in Brown's cake-shop were the four most excited concerning the five-pound note which had been stolen from Mr. Delermain, they were not the only ones in Marlthorpe College who were interested in the matter.
From first to last the whole school could do nothing but discuss the mysterious business; and, whatever else it did, the attempt to put the guilt upon Ralph's shoulders resulted in his being all the more firmly established in the favour of most of the boys.