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Amory's at the beginning of the Easter holidays in a slightly different mood from that which he enjoyed at Christmas, when the young Biffenites had cheered him till they were hoarse and he was out of hearing. Toby was almost beside himself with consternation when Bourne and Vercoe turned up at the Courts in the afternoon. "Your 'ands, Mr. Bourne, and your eye! What have you been a-doing of?"
Whilst the Biffenites were thus shouting their way home, one unhappy youth hurried to his room feeling as though the moon had fallen out of heaven and crushed him Todd. After that night when he had made the bet with Cotton, he had neither worked for the Perry nor yet left it alone, but loafed about with Cotton as usual, and piffled with the work for the Exhibition.
The two young Biffenites found the faithful Grim holding the fort in the front bench of the pavilion against the ardent assaults of some Taylorian juniors, who could not see what Grim wanted with three seats. The fellows of the two houses were rapidly lining up for the match, and Dick Worcester had sent to Biffen's making affectionate inquiries for the dervishes.
"It's just my luck to have my eleven filled up with niggers," he observed to Acton in half-humourous disgust; but Biffenites pinned their faith on Worcester, the dervishes, and Acton, and, to the huge delight of Grim, Rogers, Wilson, Thurston, and other enthusiastic junior Biffenites, the resurrected house survived the first two rounds.
"Oh yes; but you've got to go down if he catches you in his swing." "You fellows must have played beautifully to let Biffen's mob maul you to that extent." "Gus, my boy, instead of frowsing up here all the afternoon with your books, you should have been on the touch-line watching those Biffenites at their new tricks. Your opinion then would have a little avoirdupois.
Sharpe, cheered to the echo by the Biffenites on the front row, went proudly off. The Dervishes were received with enthusiasm, and went through their performance to the shouts of "Well wriggled, Java!" "Why don't you oil!" "Do it again orang-outang!" They amiably smiled acknowledgments as they backed away. Then I myself stepped on to the stage, prepared to judge the two-minutes' rounds.
On the morrow Acton strolled into the station and espied the Biffenites, who were scattered up and down the platform with careful carelessness. The train came in, and at once the juniors crowded en masse round the carriage in which Acton had secured a corner seat, and stood talking to Grim, who was in fine feather. At that very moment Phil Bourne and young Jack Bourne bustled into the station.
"If we can't do it, well, we didn't know Gussy was in eh?" "Rather! That is the exact fable we'll serve out to Todd, if necessary." Breaking cover, the young Biffenites had secured the door of the punt-house without any difficulty, and then had run for dear life. "Golly!" said Rogers, pulling up when well out of sight of the boat-house; "we did that rather neat, eh?
As I said before, the victory of the despised Biffenites over the Fifth Form eleven a moderate one, it is true caused quite a little breeze of surprise to circulate around the other houses, which had by process of time come to regard that slack house as hopeless in the fields or in the schools.
"Oh, Worcester!" began Rogers, tremulously, "we've come to tell you that it was we who lost Biffen's the houser." "Why, Wilson didn't play, and you caught Cotton," said Dick, astonished. "But we locked the dervishes in the punt-house we thought there was only Todd inside." "Oh, you did, you little beggars, did you?" said Worcester, considering the doleful and grief-stricken Biffenites.
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