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"Is he is your sister married?" "No," she whispered. "And why " began Gethryn, angrily, "Why does that scoundrel come to beg money " He stopped, for the girl was in evident distress. "Ah! You know why," she said in a scarce audible voice. The young man was silent. "And you will come again?" she asked timidly. No answer. She moved toward the door. "We were such very good friends."
But Gethryn, as he knew perfectly well, was not the sort of fellow to rub in the undeniable fact that the School team could not get along without him. He had half decided to ask him to play against Charchester, when Gosling suggested the very same thing. 'Why don't you have Gethryn in again? he said. 'You've stood him out against the O.B.s and the Masters. Surely that's enough.
When it panted forth again, Gethryn stood waving his hand, and watched it out of sight. Turning at last to leave the platform, he found that the crowd had melted away; only a residue of crimson-capped officials remained. He inquired of one where he could find an expressman and was referred to a mild man absorbing a bad cigar.
After that neither spoke for a while. Gethryn, half stretched on the big rug, idly twisting bits of it into curls, felt very comfortable, without troubling to ask himself what would come next. Presently she glanced up. "Paris, do you want to smoke?" "You don't think I would smoke in this dainty nest?" "Please do, I like it. We are we will be such very good friends.
'We've drawn up this notice, he said, 'and we came to see if you'd sign it. Nearly all the other chaps in the team have. Reece perused the document gravely. Then he handed it back to its owner. 'What rot, said he. 'I don't think so at all, said Monk. 'Nor do I, broke in Danvers, speaking for the first time. 'What else can we do? We can't let a chap like Gethryn stick to the captaincy.
"Confound the cat!" he added, examining some red parallel lines which suddenly decorated the back of his hand. "She won't stand rubbing the wrong way," said Rex, smiling uneasily. "Like the rest of us," said Elliott. "More fool he who tries it," said Braith, and looked at Gethryn with an affectionate smile that made him turn redder than before.
She lay in a cloud of fleecy wrappings on a lounge that was covered with a great white bearskin. Her blue eyes met Gethryn's, and he smiled faintly. She spoke again: "Will Monsieur sit a little nearer? It is difficult to speak loudly I have so little strength." Gethryn walked over to the sofa and half unconsciously sank down on the rug which fell on the floor by the invalid's side.
'A little, said Marriott, 'just a little. I went down to the fags' room, and when I opened the door I noticed a certain weird stillness in the atmosphere. There is usually a row going on that you could cut with a knife. I looked about. The room was apparently empty. Then I observed a quaint object on the horizon. Do you know one Skinner by any chance? 'My dear chap! said Gethryn.
There was one net for the elect, the remnants of last year's Eleven and the 'probables' for this season, and half a dozen more for lesser lights. At the first net Norris was batting to the bowling of Gosling, a long, thin day boy, Gethryn, and the professional as useful a trio as any school batsman could wish for.
Her lips formed the word, "Tonight!" Without a word he crept from his seat and followed her out of the room by a side door. Gethryn, lounging in the smoking-room meanwhile, was listening with delight to the bellowing of Sir Griffin Damby, who stood at the clerk's desk in the hall. "Don't contradict me!" he roared the weak-eyed clerk had not dreamed of doing so "Don't you contradict me!
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