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The Chief was very tactful, and, moreover, he had enjoyed reading the play immensely. Besides, it would not have done any good if he had made a fuss, especially when he was entirely in sympathy with Betteridge. In The Fernhurst School Magazine, which was edited by Betteridge, there appeared the following paragraph:
Gordon's day of power was beginning to dawn. Next term he would be distinctly a House blood. It was a ravishing thought. One evening in exam. week Hunter announced casually after tea: "I say, do you remember Betteridge talking once about a man called Ferrers? Well, he is coming here as a master next term." "Oh, Lord, is he really?" said Fletcher.
"You know, I was reading an article in some paper the other day, by an assistant master at Winchborough, called Ferrers. He was cursing the whole system. I showed it to Claremont, just for a rag; told him I thought it was rather good. The old fool looked at it for some time, and then said: 'Well, Betteridge, don't form your style on this. It is very perfervid stuff.
A solemn procession moved to Study No. 14. Rudd was working. "Hullo, Byzantium," said Mansell. "How goes it?" "Oh, get out, you; I want to work!" "Gentlemen, Mr Rudd wishes to work," Betteridge announced. "The question is, shall he be allowed to? I say 'No!" He suddenly jerked away the chair Rudd was sitting on: the owner of the study collapsed on the floor.
Betteridge afterwards said that to watch Jenks rushing across the courts to see the Chief during the minute interval between the exit of one class and the arrival of the next was better than any pantomime. He was very small; he had a large white moustache; his gown was too long; it blew out like sails in the wind. Besides, it was the first time Jenks had ever been seen to run.
Gordon murmured "Thank you," and two or three Eton collars moved aside to give him room. What a change! All the giants of the former generation had gone. Betteridge had, at the express request of the Chief, come back for one term. But he alone remained. Gordon was fifth in the House; and, good Lord, that amazing ass Rudd was a prefect, and second in the House!
They go on happily believing them 'perhaps a little excitable, but on the whole, perfectly straight and honest. Then a row comes. They are horrified. They don't realise all of us are the same. They've made themselves believe what they want to believe." "Yes, and when they are told the truth, they won't believe it," said Betteridge.
These outhouse men can come or go if they want to. It does not matter to us. Let us read this play with a School House cast, carry the thing through somehow, and show these fools like Christy what we think of them. Now is our chance of proving our independence." "Won't there be a hell of a row, though?" said Betteridge reluctantly. "What if there is, man?" said Gordon. "We can't help that.
But Ferrers, who was now president, never took any notice of the programme, which he invariably altered a day or two before the meeting. This imposed a considerable strain on those who had to get up fresh parts and prepare different speeches at a second's notice. But as the alterations were nearly always an improvement no one minded. "Sorry, Betteridge had to change Stoics' thing.
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