`` Clemantiny ! '' said Miss Salome rebukingly . She put her arms about Chester and drew him to her . `` Then it is all settled , Chester . You are my boy now , and of course I shall expect you to be a good boy . '' If ever a boy was determined to be good , that boy was Chester . That day was the beginning of a new life for him . He began to go to the Hopedale school the next week . Miss Salome gave him all Johnny 's old school books and took an eager interest in his studies . Chester ought to have been very happy , and at first he was ; but as the bright , mellow days of autumn passed by , a shadow came over his happiness . He could not help thinking that he had really deceived Miss Salome , and was deceiving her still -- Miss Salome , who had such confidence in him . He was not what he pretended to be . And as for his running away , he felt sure that Miss Salome would view that with horror . As the time passed by and he learned more and more what a high standard of honour and truth she had , he felt more and more ashamed of himself . When she looked at him with her clear , trustful , blue eyes , Chester felt as guilty as if he had systematically deceived her with intent to do harm . He began to wish that he had the courage to tell her the whole truth about himself . Moreover , he began to think that perhaps he had not done right , after all , in running away from Aunt Harriet . In Miss Salome 's code nothing could be right that was underhanded , and Chester was very swiftly coming to look at things through Miss Salome 's eyes . He felt sure that Johnny would never have acted as he had , and if Chester now had one dear ambition on earth , it was to be as good and manly a fellow as Johnny must have been . But he could never be that as long as he kept the truth about himself from Miss Salome .
`` That boy has got something XXXXX his mind , '' said the terrible Clemantiny , who , Chester felt convinced , could see through a stone wall .
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