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Never mind, stick to it, and we'll make a tidy player of you some day. I hear they're going to get up a third eleven. I dare say Ainger will stick you in it if we ask him." Tilbury laughed good-humouredly; for it was all on the cards that he might get a place in the first eleven before very long. "I fancied Ainger had knocked you two over the boundary a little while ago.
Every one on entering was asked to draw out of a hat a folded slip of paper, which assigned to him the part he was to play, the only parts reserved from the lot being that of judge, which of course was to be filled by Ainger, and that of senior counsels for the prosecution and defence, which were undertaken respectively by Barnworth and Felgate.
Put it down from `A Friend. I must go now, young 'un." He departed, leaving Arthur to pack up his treasures, amid some misgivings lest the sixpence in his hand was after all hardly worth the secret he had bought it with. On the Monday before Railsford's sports, Ainger and Barnworth sat rather dismally conning a document which lay on the table between them.
Now, Mr Baron, and Squire, and Knight of the Shire, and all the rest of it, I want to know if there's any chap in our house I mean the boiler- shop could reach up there? Mind your eye, now!" "Ainger could by jumping." "I didn't ask you anything about jumping, you duffer! How tall would a chap need to be to reach up there?" "About double your measure over six foot." "There you are!
"Now," proceeded Ainger, consulting a paper, "the twelve jurymen are to go into the box there." The twelve boys with "Jury" on their papers obeyed. They were a motley crew, some being Fifth-form boys, some Shell-fish, and some Babies. And by the odd irony of fate, the one who had drawn the "foreman's" ticket was Jukes, the Baby. "Now the witnesses go to the back seats there.
"Three cheers for Miss Violet!" "Three cheers for the governors!" Then again, in regular order, the captain of each house stepped forward and called for three cheers for his own house, all of which were vigorously given each house being on its mettle to drown all the others. Last in the list Ainger stepped forward and called for "Three cheers for Railsford's!"
"If I cannot take part in the sports in person, at least I would like to have some finger in the pie." That was all that passed. "I like Railsford," said Smedley; "he's genuinely cut up." "It's awfully rough on him," replied Ainger. The two friends said good-bye. "By the way, Smedley," said Ainger, calling the captain back, "I may as well tell you, we are going to have our revenge for all this."
Ainger was one of those fellows who, when their mind is set on a thing, seem to lose sight of all but two persons the person who can help them most and the person who can hinder them most. In the present case Ainger's heart was set on making his house the crack house of Grandcourt. The person who could help him most was Railsford, and the person who could hinder him most was Felgate.
Ainger, on his part, was quite ready to acknowledge that without Railsford the house stood a poor chance of fulfilling the ambitious project he and Barnworth had marked out for it, and he only hoped, now, that the master might not rest on the laurels of last term, but would help to carry through the still more important exploits of this.
"How do I know, till you tell me?" snarled the boy. "If he doesn't know," said Barnworth to Ainger, significantly, "we must do as we proposed. I'll go and get my papers and be ready for you in a minute." This meaningless speech had a remarkable effect on Munger. He stared first at one prefect, then at the other; and when Barnworth rose as if to leave the room, he said, "Wait don't do that.
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