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`` I tell you what will make him sick , though , and that is your having milled with Rand-Brown . It 's a job he 'd have liked to have taken on himself . '' Into the story at this point comes the narrative of Charles Mereweather Cook , aged fourteen , a day-boy . Cook arrived at the school on the tenth of March , at precisely nine o'clock , in a state of excitement . He said there was a row on in the town . Cross-examined , he said there was no end of a row on in the town . During morning school he explained further , whispering his tale into the attentive ear of Knight of the School House , who sat next to him .