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`` All right , sir ; we 'll drop the matter , Mr. Crabtree , '' he said . `` Good-morning , '' and a moment later he quitted his prison and was on his way to his dormitory . The cadets had much to talk about that day -- the sudden liberation of Pepper , and the losses Bart Conners and Dan Baxter had suffered . At noon Captain Putnam came back , and he had the captain of Company B and Dan Baxter in his office for the best part of an hour . But nothing came of the conference , excepting that the owner of the Hall said he would pay all losses and gave Baxter his eleven dollars on the spot . Then he had a long conference with the new man of all work , who was really a detective in disguise . But that individual was as much in the dark as anybody .