But I shall
not withhold my hand longer."
He pushed back his chair, and the look on his face was so terrible that
it robbed the trembling wretch of his fictitious courage.
"Wait!" begged Agnew. "If I do what you say, you'll give me time to get
out of town?"
"I shall not move against you at all. I shall simply turn the confession
over to the faculty, and so clear Badger."
Again Agnew hesitated.
"Here are paper and ink on your table!"
The sweat was standing in drops on the brow of the card-sharp.
"I'll do it simply because I must!" he doggedly declared. "It is an
outrage. I do not admit any of these other charges, but I did put those
things in Badger's pockets, and I took the questions to help me out in
the examination. Those are the only things I am willing to confess."
"They are all I ask you to confess."
With trembling fingers, Agnew drew pen and paper toward him. And then,
at Merriwell's dictation, he wrote a complete confession of the wrong he
had done Badger.
"That is all right!" Merry admitted, when he had looked it over.
He arose from the chair, folded the paper, and put it in a pocket.
"Get out of New Haven as quick as you can. I shall give this to the
faculty in the morning. Good-by!"
He unlocked the door, with his face turned toward Agnew, let himself
into the hall, and was gone.
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