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`` I s ' pose so , '' growled Carl shamefacedly . `` Very well . This is to be your punishment . To-night you 'll sit on Mr. Hezekiah Pollock 's tombstone in the graveyard alone , until twelve o'clock . '' Carl gave a little shudder . The graveyard was not so very far from the old Bailey garden . It would be a trying ordeal , but Carl was anxious to wipe out his disgrace and prove that he was not a coward after all .