His Biggest Secret

Chapter 35

"Run the authentication process once more," he said and when she did the connection was made.

"Ah! It's working! What's wrong with port 7?"

"I think it was manually configured to use half duplex mode. Do you recall doing that?" he asked.

Her frown turned into barely suppressed rage and Stanley was happy it didn't seem to be directed at him.

"No, but I know who did it," she growled. "Someone in my class who said he would help me."

"Did this person work on your router?" Stanley asked.

"He... had the opportunity," she said with a blush as she looked away.

"Oh... Ohhhh!" Stanley said as he clued in. She'd had this 'friend' in her bedroom. "Why, uh, why would he have sabotaged your assignment?"

"So he could take my place as top of the class," she said stiffly.

"I'm sorry. I don't mean to embarrass you. What he did was really mean. The way to get back at him would be-"

"To gut him with a fishing knife!" she snarled.

"No! You show up with your project not only complete but exceedi