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"And what may you be doing here, my little friends?" the house-master began. "We were just goin' for a walk, sir," said Beetle. "And you stopped to speak to Rattray en route?" "Yes, sir. We've been throwing golf-balls," said Rattray, coming out of the study. So far he is strictly within the truth," said little Hartopp. "Oh, you were sporting with them, were you?
"And Robins," said the policeman, in disgust, "doesn't own up to a snuffle. This Mr. Todd's house, sir?" "Yes. I'd just ask to see Mr. Taylor, the house-master, first. I fancy he'll be pleased to see you." The constable's plain, unvarnished tale gave the Rev.
The keeper's narrative style had something of the classic simplicity of Julius Caesar's. Mr. Watson bit his pen. "What you boys come for I can't understand," he said irritably. "You're from the school, of course?" "Yes," said the captive. "Well, I shall report you to your house-master. What is your name?" "Dunstable." "Your house?" "Day's." "Very good. That is all." Dunstable retired.
'Then he might have to leave. But he won't. No such luck. 'No, said Dallas. 'Good-night. 'Good-night. Certainly there was something mysterious about the matter. Charteris and Welch were conversing in the study of which they were the joint proprietors. Charteris' banjo was the joy of his fellows and the bane of his House-master.
Day, his house-master, a man whose private life was in other ways unstained by vicious habits, collected autographs. Also Mr. Day had behaved in a square manner towards Dunstable on several occasions in the past, and Dunstable, always ready to punish bad behaviour in a master, was equally anxious to reward and foster any good trait which he might exhibit.
Warde listened, holding John's hand, gripping it with sympathy and affection. The romance of this friendship stirred him profoundly; the romance of the struggle for good and evil; a struggle of which the issues remained still in doubt; a romance which Death had cruelly left unfinished this had poignant significance for the house-master. "I shall never know now," John repeated, in conclusion.
I shall go to the Common Room and make inquiries. Perhaps, as you say, there is a holiday to-day, and the notice was not brought to me." Mr. Spence told himself, as he walked to the Common Room, that this might be a possible solution of the difficulty. He was not a house-master, and lived by himself in rooms in the town.
The house received them on their fall with the mixture of jest and sympathy always extended to boys turned out of their study. The known aloofness of the three made them more interesting. "Quite like old times, ain't it?" Stalky selected a locker and flung in his books. "We've come to sport with you, my young friends, for a while, because our beloved house-master has hove us out of our diggin's."
He had hardly finished speaking, when Scaife opened his eyes for the second time. By a curious coincidence, the doctor used the words of the house-master. "Well, sir, how do you feel?" And then Scaife answered, in the same dazed fashion as before "I feel as if I was jolly well screwed, sir." Rutford nodded portentously.
O'Hara and Moriarty are down there two boys in my own house. I saw them go down there." "They had nothing to do with us, sir. We saw nothing of them." "I have no doubt," said the house-master, "that you imagine that you are doing a very chivalrous thing by trying to hide them, but you will gain nothing by it. You may go."
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