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Here, needless to say, the whole school glared at poor Coggs with as much virtuous indignation as they could summon up at such short notice; for contempt is very infectious when communicated from high quarters. "So, Coggs," said the Doctor, with a slow and withering scorn, "so you thought to defy me; to smuggle compressed illness and concentrated unhealthiness into this school with impunity?
Coggs was rocking and moaning on his bed in one corner of the room, but looked up with red furious eyes as Paul came in. "What do you want up here?" he said savagely. "Go away, can't you!" "I wish I could go away," said Paul dolefully; "but I'm hum I'm sent up here too," he explained, with some natural embarrassment.
He looked at Coggs, who sat on the seat opposite to him, and saw his cheeks and lips moving in slow and appreciative absorption of something. Coggs was clearly the culprit. "Do you encourage your boys to make common nuisances of themselves in a public place, may I ask, Dr. Grimstone?" he inquired, fuming.
Bultitude; "what do you say to a shilling?" "You haven't got a shilling," objected Coggs. "Here's a shilling, see," said Paul, producing one. "Now then, I'll give this to any boy I see get into tea first!" "Bultitude thinks he can run," said Coker, with an amiable unbelief in any disinterestedness. "He means to get in first and keep the shilling himself, I know."
Coggs, after making several attempts to bolt the offending lozenge, and turning scarlet meanwhile with confusion and coughing, stammered huskily something to the effect that he had "bought the lozenges at a chemist's," which he seemed to consider, for some reason, a mitigating circumstance. "Have you any more of this pernicious stuff about you?" said the Doctor.
"Grim can't see us here, can he, Coker?" said Coggs when they had cleared the gates and palings. "Not he!" said Coker. "Very well, then. Now then, young Bultitude, you used to be a decent fellow enough last term, though you were coxy. So, before we go any further what do you mean by this sort of thing?"
Coggs seemed to be last. He ran a little way himself just to encourage them, but, as the sound of their feet grew fainter and fainter, he felt that his last desperate ruse had taken effect, and with a chuckle at his own cleverness, turned round and ran his fastest in the opposite direction. He felt little or no interest in the result of the race.
After a moment or two of anxious waiting he heard Coggs shout, all in one breath, "One-two-three-off!" and the sound of scampering feet followed immediately. It was a most exciting and hotly contested race. Paul saw them for one brief moment in the lamplight. He saw Chawner scudding down the path like some great camel, and Coker squaring his arms and working them as if they were wings.
"What!" cried Coggs, slipping off his bed and staring wildly: "you don't mean to say you're going to catch it too?" "I've ah every reason to fear," said Mr. Bultitude stiffly, "that I am indeed going to 'catch it, as you call it." "Hooray!" shouted Coggs hysterically: "I don't care now. And I'll have some revenge on my own account as well.
He had no time to observe more, as Coker and Coggs joined him, and, on finding he had not rung the bell, seized the occasion to pummel him at their leisure before announcing their arrival. Then the gate was opened, and the three the revengeful pair assuming an air of lamb-like inoffensiveness entered the hall and were met by Mrs. Grimstone.
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