His father is a rich man . '' `` But I 'll be a cheat and a cad if I keep it , '' Elliott muttered miserably . `` Campbell is n't my legal name , and I 'd never again feel as if I had even the right of love to it if I stained it by a dishonest act . For it would be stained , even though nobody but myself knew it . Father said it was a clean name when he left it , and I can not soil it . '' The tempter was not silenced so easily as that . Elliott passed a sleepless night of indecision . But next day he went to Marwood and asked for a private interview with the president . As a result , an official announcement was posted that afternoon on the bulletin board to the effect that , owing to a misunderstanding , the Fraser Scholarship had been wrongly awarded . Carl McLean was posted as winner . The story soon got around the campus , and Elliott found himself rather overwhelmed with sympathy , but he did not feel as if he were very much in need of it after all . It was good to have done the right thing and be able to look your conscience in the face . He was young and strong and could work his own way through Marwood in time . `` No condolences , please , '' he said to Roger Brooks with a smile . `` I 'm sorry I lost the Fraser , of course , but I 've my hands and brains left . I 'm going straight to my boarding-house to dig with double vim , for I 've got to take an examination next week for a provincial school certificate . Next winter I 'll be a flourishing pedagogue in some up-country district . '' He was not , however . The next afternoon he received a summons to the president 's office . The president was there , and with him was a plump , motherly-looking woman of about sixty .
`` Mrs. Fraser , this is Elliott Hanselpakker , or Campbell , XXXXX I understand he prefers to be called .
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