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you did it with m-Alice prepense.’ Wasn’t it 
awful ?” 
“ ‘ Flat burglary, as ever was committed,’ ” 
was Rudolph’s reply, “and proof positive that 
our secret is out; but that need not interfere 
with our plans. And perhaps, under the cir¬ 
cumstances, we had better drop all further at¬ 
tempts at concealment, and take Doctor Dean 
into our counsel, for I am sure that he can 
greatly aid us in carrying out successfully our 
plans.” 
“Very well, then,” replied Davidson; “at 
our next meeting we will do as you suggest ; 
and no doubt the Deans will enter heartily into 
our enterprise. But we must use some expe¬ 
dition to get the thing well under way before 
we return to college.” 
“ That is so,” said his friend; “ but you know 
that old Professor ‘ Snifty ’ said, ‘ There is al¬ 
ways sufficient time to do a good deed, while 
eternity is none too long for a miser to tell 
over his excuses.” 
“Well,” responded Davidson, “I believe that 
is true, for it is but another form of putting 
the old adage, that ‘ Where there is a will, 
there is a way.’ So let us have some gen- 
