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I say, be sure you keep it quiet, Felgate, won't you? I trust you not to tell anybody a word about it." "Don't you be afraid of me, youngster," said Felgate. "I'd advise you to take good care of those things. We'll have some fun with them when the trial comes on again. Don't go saying too much about it till then. Did I give you the sixpence? No? There it is.
Felgate looked a little disconcerted and shut up his book. "You've missed the last two weeks at cricket," said the captain. "We have managed to get on without you, though, and one of the things I looked in to say now was that if you choose to stay away always you are welcome. Don't think it will put us out." This was unexpected.
"Gentlemen," he said, "as far as the case has gone I think I may say it has been ably conducted and patiently listened to. As our time is nearly up I adjourn the hearing till a future occasion." "Jolly hard luck," said Arthur to his senior. "I'd got plenty more to come out." "You've done quite enough for one evening," said Felgate, grinning, "the rest will keep."
Felgate was prepared to hear a peremptory order to go to the field, and had laid his plans for resisting it. "I've just been seeing one or two other louts down below who hadn't turned up. I'm glad to hear you advised them to go when I sent Wake to fetch them. It's a pity they didn't take your advice, for I've had to thrash Hunger.
Meanwhile he would go to sleep. The discussion in the captain's room had not been unanimous. "Well," said Felgate, when Ainger returned, "how do you like him?" "I don't fancy I shall get on with him." "Poor beggar!" drawled Barnworth. "I thought he might have been a good deal worse, myself." "So did I," said Stafford. "He was quite shy." "No wonder, considering who his visitors were.
In one or two cases Railsford advised that a second man should be run with a good start, in order to force the pace, and through one or two names belonging to hopeless triflers or malcontents he quietly passed his pencil. "I see Stafford has entered for the cricket-ball," said he, "as well as Felgate; how is that?" "We should lose the cricket-ball otherwise," said Ainger.
The great obstacle to whatever good was going on in Railsford's at present was Felgate. He had nearly succeeded last term in sowing discontent among the juvenile athletes, and he had, in the most unmistakable manner, not done his best in the one competition at the sports for which he had entered.
Sherriff of the Fifth was one of these, and, much as he liked cricket, he was bemoaning one day having to turn out into the fields just when he wanted to finish a knotty problem in trigonometry. "Don't go," said Felgate. "Surely no one has a right to spoil your chance of a scholarship for a musty old school rule that ought to have been abolished a century ago."
He shook hands rather nervously all round; and then, with an heroic effort at ease and freedom, said, singling out Felgate for the experiment "Let me see, you are Ainger, are you not?"
"Felgate," said the master with a tone of scorn which made the prefect wince, "it is hardly worth your while to tell lies when you can satisfy me of your guilt quite as easily by telling the truth. I won't ask you more questions, for I have no wish to give you more opportunities of falsehood. Here are your six stamps. Go to Doctor Ponsford to-morrow at 8 p.m."
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