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Updated: September 22, 2025
Decent kid, isn't he? He was telling me about Farnie. The M.C.C. match, you know, and so on. 'Oh! said the Bishop. He began to see how things had happened. 'Yes, said Norris. 'Hullo, that gives us the game. A roar of applause from the touch-line greeted the successful attempt of Hill to convert Gethryn's try into the necessary goal.
And a further scrutiny convinced the Bishop of the fact that the youth was none other than Master Reginald Farnie, late of Beckford, and shortly, or he would know the reason why, to be once more of Beckford. Other people besides himself, it appeared, could miss trains.
It's beastly, yours truly, R. Farnie. The money mentioned was in the shape of a cheque, signed by Farnie senior. Gethryn was distinctly surprised. That all this time remorse like a worm i' the bud should have been feeding upon his uncle's damask cheek, as it were, he had never suspected.
Farnie, for one of the few occasions on record, was shaken out of his usual sang-froid. Even in his easy code of morality there had always been one crime which was an anathema, the sort of thing no fellow could think of doing. But it was obviously at this that Monk was hinting. 'Good Lord, man, he cried, 'you don't mean to say you're thinking of sneaking?
Go and talk to him. Gethryn went to the junior study. Farnie was holding forth to a knot of fags at one end of the room. His audience appeared to be amused at something. 'I say, Farnie, said the Bishop, 'half a second.
What are you up to? 'Oh, shut up! said Farnie. 'Why shouldn't I come here if I like? Matter of fact, I came to see Gethryn. 'He isn't here, said Wilson luminously. 'You don't mean to say you've noticed that already? You've got an eye like a hawk, Wilson. I was just taking a look round, if you really want to know. 'Well, I shouldn't advise you to let Marriott catch you mucking his study up.
For there they would see that he was so lost to every sense of shame as to cover his books with brown paper, or deck his walls with oleographs presented with the Christmas numbers, both of which habits argue a frame of mind fit for murderers, stratagems, and spoils. Let no such man be trusted. The Bishop's study, which Farnie now proceeded to inspect, was not of this kind.
As Farnie made no signs of doing what was expected of him, Monk was obliged to resort to the somewhat cruder course of applying for the loan in person. He applied. Farnie with the utmost willingness brought to light a handful of money, mostly gold. Monk's eye gleamed approval, and he stretched forth an itching palm. Danvers began to think that it would be rash to let a chance like this slip.
Today fortnight is the time, and you remember it. What was left of Farnie then rode slowly back to Beckford. Why he went to Monk on his return probably he could not have explained himself. But he did go, and, having told his story in full, wound up by asking for a loan of two pounds.
Now, though Wilson at present suspected nothing, not knowing of the existence of the cash-box, Farnie felt that when the money came to be missed, and inquiries were made as to who had been in the study, and when, he would recall the interview. Two courses, therefore, remained open to him. He could leave the money altogether, or he could take it and leave himself. In other words, run away.
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