style="font-size:15px;"> “Ha! maybe you wish me to pass you without an examination,” cried the teacher, cunningly.
“No, sir!” answered Phil, stoutly.
“We simply ask for more time, that is all,” added Ben. “We don’t ask any favor. We can make up the lessons if you will give us as much time as the other teachers would give us.”
“You have not told anybody of this – this – er – affair of Mrs. Breen?”
“No.”
“It is all a mistake, but I should not like it to get abroad. It would hurt my reputation a great deal. I shall settle the matter in the near future. I do not owe that lady as much as the lawyer says I do, – but that is not your affair.” Job Haskers continued to pace the floor. “Now about your lessons,” he continued, after a pause. “If I – er – thought that I had really been too hard on you–” He paused.
“You certainly have been hard,” said Phil.
“And if you really need more time–”
“Give us two weeks more and we’ll be all right,” put in Ben.
“And if – er – if I should decide to do that, you will – er–”
“We’ll make good – and keep our mouths shut,” finished Phil.
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