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Fenn learned the facts from the matron, and detailed them to Kennedy. "Kay got the offer of a headmastership at a small school in the north, and jumped at it. I pity the fellows there. They are going to have a lively time." "I'm jolly glad Dencroft has got the house," said Kennedy. "We might have had some awful rotter put in. Dencroft will help us buck up the house games."
He was now head of Dencroft's. Mr Dencroft was one of the most popular masters in the school. He was a keen athlete and a tactful master. Fenn and Kennedy knew him well, through having played at the nets and in scratch games with him. They both liked him. If Kennedy had had to select a house-master, he would have chosen Mr Blackburn first. But Mr Dencroft would have been easily second.
When he showed Kennedy the list of his team on the Friday morning, that diplomatist chuckled. He foresaw a good time in the near future. "You must play up like the dickens," he told the house during the dinner-hour. "Dencroft is bringing a hot lot this afternoon. But I think we shall lick them." They did. When the whistle blew for No-side, the house had just finished scoring its fourteenth try.
"It would be an excellent thing for the house if we could. I hope Fenn is helping you get the team into shape?" he added. "Oh, yes, sir," said Kennedy. "We share the captaincy. We both sign the lists." "A very good idea," said Mr Dencroft, relieved. "Good night, Kennedy." "Good night, sir," said Kennedy.
A good deal more in the same strain gave the house team the comfortable feeling that they had done uncommonly well to get beaten by only twenty-four points. Kennedy fostered the delusion, and in the meantime arranged with Mr Dencroft to collect fifteen innocents and lead them forth to be slaughtered by the house on the following Friday. Mr Dencroft entered into the thing with a relish.
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