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"I am sorry to find," he said, rather more severely, "that my head boys, who ought to aim at the good of their house, are parties to a feud which, I am sure, can do nobody any good. I must say I had hoped better things." Ainger looked up quickly. "I am quite willing to resign the captaincy, sir, if you wish it."
"Now," said he, beginning on a new tack, "I am anxious to hear from you something about the state of the house. You're my police, you know," he added with a friendly smile. Stafford was the only one who smiled in response, and then ensued a dead silence. "What do you think, Ainger? Do things seem pretty right?" "Yes," said Ainger laconically. "Have you noticed anything, Barnworth?"
Then, turning to Ainger and Railsford, he said, "Would you two come again later on? and on your way, Ainger, will you ask Mr Bickers to come here?" "Excuse me, doctor," said Mr Branscombe, "but I should much prefer if these two gentlemen remained. I believe, in fact, that although I do not know them they have come to see you on this same business that I have."
The doctor received the deputation politely, and allowed Ainger to read the petition and list of names without interruption. When the ceremony was over, he said, quietly "The only fault I have to find with you is that you have presented your petition to me instead of to Mr Railsford. It is perfectly open for Mr Railsford to with draw his resignation.
But as he held the book upside down, Ainger concluded that he could not be very deeply engrossed in its contents. "You're working, I hear?" said the captain. "Is that all you've come to tell me?" replied Felgate. "No, only most fellows when they're reading even if it's novels, read the right way up. It's bad for the eyes to do it upside down."
Dr Ponsford looked half stunned with this cascade of revelations and explanations. Then he went up to Railsford and took his hand. "I am thankful indeed that all this has happened now in time. A few hours more, and it would have come too late to prevent a great injustice to you, Railsford. Ainger, go for Mr Bickers, and come back with him."
You couldn't, strong as you are." "You helped, then?" "I had nothing to do with the the scragging," said Munger. "I Oh, I say, Ainger, you aren't going to get me expelled, surely? Do let us off this time!" "I'm not the head-master; you'll have to ask him that. Your only chance is to make a clean breast of it at once. What was it you did?"
Hinc illae lacrymae. At the moment when Ainger looked in, Herapath's side had scored 35 goals against their adversaries' 29. The rules were strict Rugby, and nothing was wanted to complete the sport but an umpire. The captain arrived in the nick of time. "Offside, Dim! wasn't he, Ainger? That's a place-kick for us! Hang the dog! Get out, Smiley; go and keep goal. See fair play, won't you, Ainger?"
Felgate doesn't go; why don't you make him?" The captain put down his bat. "Munger, go and put on your flannels at once." "What if I don't?" asked Munger. Ainger replied by giving him a thrashing there and then, despite his howls and protests that he had just been going, and would never do it again.
"It's nothing to do with us," said Barnworth, "whether he is or not." "Unless he goes in for favouritism; which it seems he is doing," said Ainger. "Well, even so, you've washed your hands of young Herapath, and he's a lucky chap. But having done so, I don't see what it matters to us how many wives or sweethearts he has."
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