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The discovery was too late to be any good that is, as far as the hope of reaching Willoughby before call-over was concerned. However, it warned them the sooner they turned now the sooner they would get back at all. So they turned viciously and started homewards. The rowers were all too tired and enraged to talk much, and the journey down stream was silent and gloomy.
He had been so flurried last night with one thing and another that he had hardly noticed a message sent him after call-over by the Register Clerk. But it occurred to him now that it was about some boys who had not answered to their names. He got out of bed with a groan and searched the mantelpiece for the note. Ah! here it was: "Co. Go Capt. 8½ Sa.
They heard, about a mile from home, the school bell ringing for call-over, and groaned inwardly when presently it ceased, and they knew their names were being called over and not one of them there to answer. Parson alone made any attempt to keep up the drooping spirits of his crew. "Never fear. We'll pay them out, you see. And if they do report us we'll only get impots. The beasts!
It was a cheerful babel of matters personal, provincial, and imperial, pieces of old call-over lists, and new policies, cut short by the roar of a Burmese gong, and we went down not less than a quarter of a mile of stairs to meet Infant's mother, who had known us all in our school-days and greeted us as if those had ended a week ago.
No one knew exactly what the quarrel had been about, or what, if any, were its merits, or whether it was a breaking off of all friendship or merely a passing breeze. Whatever it was, it was enough to give Gilks the "toothache" on this particular afternoon and keep him at Willoughby. The hour that elapsed after call-over dragged heavily for every one.
He'll burst some day." That day came a little sooner than they expected came when the Sergeant, whose duty it was to collect defaulters, did not attend an afternoon call-over. "Tired of pubs, eh? He's gone up to the top of the bill with his binoculars to spot us," said Stalky. "Wonder he didn't think of that before. Did you see old Heffy cock his eye at us when we answered our names?
Railsford gave a careful account of the discovery of Mr Bickers in the boot-box, and was conscious that the doctor, although he gave little sign of it, was not quite blind to the unfortunate position in which he, as the new master of the offending house, was placed. "Have a call-over of your house at ten o'clock, Mr Railsford. I will come."
The clanging of a bell brought both boys to their feet. "Lock-up, and call-over," said Scaife. "Come on!" They pushed their way down the passage. Several boys addressed Scaife. "Hullo, Demon! Here's the old Demon! Demon, I thought you were going to be sacked!" To these and other sallies Scaife replied with his slightly ironical smile.
"Nothing particular. I caught him coming home one night late, long after call-over. I ought to have reported him for it, but I thought I'd tell you first. It's a pity for him, for he's not a bad fellow." "I'd give anything to get him away from Silk!" said Riddell. "It seems a sort of infatuation with him, for he knows well enough Silk means him no good, and yet he's thick with him.
''Notice anything wrong with my beak? Stalky replied. 'Pater went Berserk after call-over, and fell on a lot of us for jesting with him about his impot. You ought to see Malpass's eye. 'You mean that Pater fought? said Mullins. 'Like a devil. Then he nearly went to sleep in our study just now. I expect he'll be all right when he wakes up. Rummy business! Conscientious old bargee.
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