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"Well," said Gilks, "if you must put your head into the lion's mouth, you must, mustn't he, Silk? But I say, as you are to get pulled up, I don't see why you shouldn't have all the fun you can for your money. What do you say to a game of skittles at Beamish's?" "What a nice boy you are!" said Silk, laughing; "the young 'un doesn't know Beamish's."
Beamish's was, as Gilks had said, another name for the Shellport Aquarium a disreputable place of resort, whose only title to the name of Aquarium was that it had in it, in an obscure corner which nobody ever explored, a small tank, which might have contained fishes if there had been any put into it.
"About Beamish's, you know," said Telson, confidentially; "he thinks you're going to report him." "And he's bound to get expelled if you do," said Parson. "And how do you know about it?" asked the captain, quietly. "Oh! you know, Parson and I spotted them that is, Gilks and Silk and him that night of Brown's party. But we never told anybody, and don't mean to, so I don't know how it came out."
In all our talks you never once mentioned Beamish's. You concluded what I suspected you of was this, and I concluded that the scrape you were confessing was the one I suspected you of." "What do you suspect me of, then?" inquired Wyndham, "if it wasn't that?" "I'm ashamed to say," said the captain, "I suspected you of having cut the lines of Parrett's rudder at the boat-race."
"Not know Beamish's! at the Aquarium!" said Gilks. "No. What is he?" inquired Wyndham. "He's the Aquarium!" said Gilks, laughing. "And do they play skittles in the Aquarium?" asked the boy. "Rather!" said Silk; "it amuses the fishes, you know."
"You know I promised you never to say a word about Beamish's," he faltered, at length. "So you did," replied Silk, drily. "Would you mind letting me off that promise?" "What?" exclaimed Silk, putting down his paper and pencil and staring at the boy. "I mean only as far as I'm concerned," said Wyndham, hurriedly, trying to avert a storm. "As far as you are concerned!
Under her breath she began it and abruptly desisted. The Dear Name suggested another. For it she substituted the Ombra leggiera. In its scatter of trills that mount, as birds mount, there were no evocations, though she did begin wondering again about Mrs. Beamish's music-room. If it were not too impossible she might give the Ernani involame.
"Oh," said the boy, becoming still more uncomfortable, and afraid of breaking his promise to say nothing about Beamish's, "a good many things of one sort or another. I've gone wrong, I know."
You know, Silk threatened that unless I withdrew the names he would tell the doctor about that affair of Beamish's and get Wyndham expelled to spite me." Bloomfield laughed. "Not he. It's all brag, depend on it. But why on earth doesn't the young 'un go and make a clean breast to the doctor, before he gets to know of it any other way?" "That's just the worst of it.
"For goodness' sake don't start on him!" cried Gilks, viciously; "he's nothing to do with it." "Hasn't he? That's all you know, you blockhead! He suspected Wyndham of that boat-race business. I can't make out how, but he did. And the young fool all along thought it was Beamish's he was in a row about.
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