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Updated: May 11, 2025
What did he mean by that "If you knew all I know"? It sounded like one of those vague menaces with which Arthur had been wont to garnish his utterances last term. What did Felgate know, beyond the secret of his own wrong-doings, which could possibly affect the Master of the Shell?
"You forget that from one of my windows everything that goes on here is plainly visible, including those who stand at the door and look on when they ought to know better. Go to your rooms, you two." "We are in charge of the house, sir," mildly protested Felgate. "I am in charge of the house," thundered Mr Bickers. "Obey me, and go." They withdrew, chafing, crestfallen, and very uncomfortable.
"I, a prefect and a very great person in this house, should greatly resent it if a Fifth-form fellow beat me at the jump. Upon my word I'd give him 100 lines." "`Cricket-ball. Clipstone 77 yards. What a poor throw! Felgate is sure to beat that, at any rate." "Not if he can help," said Barnworth.
He astonished Felgate that evening by a visit to his study. "Felgate," said he, "I wish to know your reason for giving Bateson a cigar to smoke." "I give Bateson a cigar, sir?" "Do you deny it, Felgate?" demanded the master sternly. "Oh," said the prefect, with a forced laugh, "I believe there was some joke about a cigar. He had a great fancy to try one."
This seemed a satisfactory plan, and Felgate hoped that in return for what he was doing Mr Bickers would intercede with the doctor to restore him to his prefecture. Which Mr Bickers said he would do, and the interview ended. Felgate had not much difficulty in possessing himself of the "articles."
But the Grandcourt boys did not know all this, and therefore they had no pity for poor monsieur. However, as I have said, monsieur shrugged his shoulders, and accepted the help of the prefects to keep his disorderly charges within bounds. From one of the prefects he got very hide help. Felgate had no interest in the order of the house.
Nor did Felgate, in his revengeful whims, omit the orthodox functions of the bully. Only he took care to perform such ceremonies in private, for fear of a mishap. But in these precautions he unluckily reckoned without his host.
"But, I say, Marky, just tell us this it wasn't us got you into the row, was it? It was awfully low of me to let it out to Felgate; but we bowled him out in time, just when he was going to send those things to Bickers. Did you see the nice trick we played him? He won't be able to do it again, for we burned the things. Such a flare-up! It isn't our fault you're going, is it?"
He stayed away the next practice day, and, much to his mortification, nobody took the slightest notice of his absence. "You see," said Felgate, "if only one or two of you stand steady, they can't compel you to play. It's ridiculous." Next day, accordingly, three fellows stayed away; who, as they were the three premier louts in Railsford's, were never missed or inquired after.
The unfortunate youth seemed to forget that the trial was a mock one, and coloured up and stammered and corrected himself, as if the life of a fellow-being actually depended on his evidence. Felgate, after a hurried communication from his junior, only asked a very few questions in cross-examination. "Did you observe if the body was lying with its head to the door or its feet?"
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