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Who is this coming in first-wicket-down? Not Radley? Yes, by heaven, it is! He has come to see that no rot sets in. Now, Honion, you may well spit on your hands. A laugh trembles its way round the spectators, as Lancaster places his men in the deep field. He is ready to be knocked about. The first over closes for ten, all off Radley's bat, two fours and a two.
"I know not all; but mine uncle told me this much that they have reported to the cardinal how that the very men chosen and sent by him to 'his most towardly college, as they call it, are those amongst whom the 'unrighteous leaven' is working most freely, and they specially mention Clarke and Sumner and the singing man Radley as examples of danger to others.
He and Sumner nursed Radley as best they might. Then Sumner fell sick, and Clarke had them both to care for. "To the very last he tended them. Though well nigh in as evil a case, he yet would rise and crawl to them, and give them food and water, or moisten their lips when they could no longer eat the coarse prison fare.
Then he put his cane away, and issued, as before, his little ration of gentleness. "You're two plucky boys," he said. That night I measured my barefoot height against the dormitory wall, and made a deep pencil-mark thereon: which done, I reached up to a great height, and made a mark to represent Radley. After these preliminaries there was nothing to do but to wait developments.
But all affirmed that he, together with Sumner and Radley, was lying in a foul prison, sick unto death with the fever that besets those who lie too long in these noisome holes, or, as some said, with the sweating sickness, which has shown itself once more in Oxford.
Reg'lar meals, no smoke, and you may grow into a fine lad yet," carried himself off with the awkward leg-work of a heavy-bodied man, cheerily acknowledging the greetings of the little Sucker boys, and prodding the fattest of them in the ribs. Radley strolled away, followed by the wondering looks of boys who were told that this big man was S.T. Radley, of Middlesex.
Hunting about, he at length found the bell which soon brought some one to the door, and on its being opened a rather severe questioning took place, as to how the visitor got there and what was his object. Mr. Radley having in the meantime gone home, he could not be referred to.
I grumbled with something like a sob. "Go away. Go away." But Doe persisted. In full view of the prefects he chatted gaily to me. Once, as Radley passed, he slipped his arm into mine. And when the master was out of hearing he asked: "I s'pose Radley knows you're in Coventry?" "Of course. Everybody does." "Do you think he saw I had my arm in yours?" "I should think so. You made it pretty obvious."
Radley?" pursued Salome, as though he were bored with the evidence, but realised that everyone must be allowed his turn to speak. "Ray has always worked well for me," Radley promptly answered, and we all knew he meant it as a second stab for Fillet. Salome once more fixed me with his disconcerting stare. "Ray," he asked, "have you any glimmerings of moral courage?"
"He has a wonderful voice," said Magdalen, with a slight backward glance over her shoulder towards Radley; "who is he, and whence does he come?" "He sang as a boy in one of those grammar schools which the cardinal is now interesting himself so much to promote. But when he lost his boy's voice he was not able to remain at the school, and has since been a servant in several great houses.
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