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"And won't Crabtree have a job getting them down!" "Oh, my, what a thing to do!" came a voice from out of the darkness. Pepper whirled around quickly, but the speaker had vanished, banging a door after him. "Who was that?" was the question Pepper asked himself. He could not place the voice, and was much disturbed. Would the intruder, who had seen his actions, expose him? "I'll have to chance it," he told himself rather dubiously. "I can't get the teeth down anyway. Too bad! I thought I was alone!" And then he hurried off to bed in anything but a comfortable frame of mind. [Illustration: THIS WAS A SIGNAL FOR THE DISCHARGE OF ALL SORTS OF THINGS AT THE DANGLING OBJECT. _The Mystery of Putnam Hall._ (Page 192)] CHAPTER XX PEPPER A PRISONER At the usual hour the next morning Josiah Crabtree arose and dressed himself. He was in a far from happy frame of mind, for a tailor's bill he had to pay was higher than he thought it ought to be. Having donned his garments, and washed himself and combed his hair, he turned to the stand to get his new set of teeth. He took up the glass and peered into it. "Hum!" he mused. "I thought I put them in there--in fact, I was sure of it!" he murmured. He set the glass down and commenced to look around, on the bureau, on his bookcase, on the shelf, and even on the chairs. But, of course, nothing in the shape of the set of teeth came to light. "This is queer, mighty queer," said the teacher to himself. "Now, let me think what I did with them. Yes, I put them in the glass, I am positive of it!" He examined the glass once more, turning it around and around. Then he commenced a systematic search of the room. At the conclusion something like a groan escaped his lips. "They are gone! gone!" he murmured hollowly. "And I left the old set at the dentist's to be made over! Oh, what shall I do? I cannot go to the classroom without my teeth, the cadets would roar at me! It must be a trick, a wicked trick! Oh, if only I could find out who did this awful thing!" He made another hunt, and then, not knowing what else to do, opened his door and hailed a passing cadet. "Kindly ask Captain Putnam to step here as soon as he can," he mumbled. "Yes, sir," answered the cadet, and looked curiously at the teacher. "Got a toothache, Mr. Crabtree?" "No, I have no toothache," mumbled the teacher. "Send Captain Putnam as soon as you can," and then he dove back into his
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