`` I 'm not a very sociable fellow , '' said Elliott with a faint smile . `` You know they call me ` the hermit . ' As it happened , I never talked the matter over with anyone or heard it referred to . I -- I wish I had known this before . '' `` Why , what difference does it make ? It 's all right , anyway . But it is odd to think that if your name had n't been Campbell , the Fraser would have gone to McLean over the heads of Stone and all the rest . Their only hope was that you would both fall below seventy . It 's an absurd condition , but there it is in old Professor Fraser 's will . He was rich and had no family . So he left a number of bequests to the college on ordinary conditions . I suppose he thought he might humour his whim in one . His widow is a dear old soul , and always makes a special pet of the boy who wins the Fraser . Well , here 's my street . So long , Campbell . '' Elliott responded almost curtly and walked onward to his boarding-house with a face from which all the light had gone . When he reached his room he took down the Marwood calendar and whirled over the leaves until he came to the announcement of bursaries and scholarships . The Fraser announcement , as far as he had read it , ended at the foot of the page . He turned the leaf and , sure enough , at the top of the next page , in a paragraph by itself , was the condition : `` Preference shall be given to candidates of the name Fraser , Campbell or McLean , provided that said competitor makes at least seventy per cent in his examination . '' Elliott flung himself into a chair by his table and bowed his head on his hands .
He had no right XXXXX the Fraser Scholarship .
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