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"Modest, like all heroes!" she cried, and, still kneeling, proceeded to sing his praises with a so infectious fervour that Noaks did begin to feel he had done a fine thing in not dying. After all, was it not moral cowardice as much as love that had tempted him to die? He had wrestled with it, thrown it. "Yes," said he, when her rhapsody was over, "perhaps I am modest."

"I've marked the place," added Noaks, turning on his heel with a sneering laugh; "you needn't give it me back." Jack read it out loud for the edification of his two companions. "We notice that Mr. Fossberry has offered a reward of 50 pounds for any information which shall lead to the arrest of the thieves who entered his house some few weeks ago, and stole a valuable collection of coins.

"Is he dining with us to-night?" asked Zuleika. "Certainly not," said the Warden. "Most decidedly not." Noaks, unlike the Duke, had stopped for an ardent retrospect. He gazed till the landau was out of his short sight; then, sighing, resumed his solitary walk. The landau was rolling into "the Broad," over that ground which had once blackened under the fagots lit for Latimer and Ridley.

Noaks," he added, turning to the culprit, "put on your coat and go home; you have disgraced yourself and your Comrades. I shall see that you send a written apology to the boy you struck." "Bravo!" whispered Acton; "old Fox is a good sort." "Oh, they're most of them all right," answered Morris; "it's only two or three that are such beasts." The game was continued.

"I don't want her to know," said Noaks, with a return of nervousness. "You mustn't tell any one. I the fact is " "Ah, that is so like you!" the girl said tenderly. "I suppose it was your modesty that all this while blinded me. Please, sir, I have a confession to make to you. Never till to-night have I loved you."

In answer to the eager inquiries of his two companions, Jack Vance said that he had seen nothing of Noaks during the holidays, except having passed him on one or two occasions in the street. The notice of the fifty pounds reward still appeared in the windows of the police station; but the robbery itself was beginning to be looked upon as a thing of the past, and was already wellnigh forgotten.

But so little used was he to seeking sympathy that he could not unburden himself. He temporised. Noaks muttered something about getting back to work, and fumbled with the door-handle. "Oh, my dear fellow, don't go," said the Duke. "Sit down. Our Schools don't come on for another year. A few minutes can't make a difference in your Class. I want to to tell you something, Noaks. Do sit down."

Diggory was just about to reply in the affirmative, when help came from an unexpected quarter. "What are you boys doing out here at this time?" cried a loud, stern voice. "Noaks, what are you about down the road there? Come in this moment, every one of you!" "Saved!" whispered Jack Vance, in an ecstasy of delight as the Philistines trooped back through the double doors. "That was old Phillips.

"I say, what made Noaks search your pockets?" asked Jack, as the three friends prepared to break up their "confab." "Oh, for a long time I couldn't imagine, and then all of a sudden I thought why it was. Don't you see, he wanted to find if I had any more fusees. My stars, I was glad 'Rats' had only given me one instead of the box!"

I should say that Noaks is the fellow who does it, but we ought to make certain." "Yes, but how are we to do it?" asked Acton, laughing; "that's just what I want to know." "Well, I've got a bit of a plan," returned the other, "only I should like to tell it you in private." "All right," answered the dux; "come on outside. Now, then, what is it?"