"You'd better do it now, while this feeling about being a collector for
the Missionary is on you. It will soon pass off, and then you won't
want to give them back."
He said:
"To show you how I did feel before hearing the Drug Missionary, Pratt, I
may tell you I had an idea of taking the glasses home next holidays, and
buying a new glazier's diamond and writing on the glasses the bitter
words, 'THOU SHALT NOT STEAL,' and then returning them to his desk next
term. But there are two very good reasons why I shall not do that. One
is this strong pro-missionary feeling in me, and the other is that, if I
did, Dunston would guess to a dead certainty who had done it, knowing
only too well what I can do in the matter of writing on glass."
"He would," I told Tudor. "So the sooner you put them back unharmed,
the better."
"I shall," said Tudor, "and I'm going to return them in a very peculiar
way. I am going to hide them in a certain place, and then I am going to
write an anonymous letter to Dunston, telling him they are in that
place."
Well, I thought nothing of this idea.