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Poor young Bateson had a sorry time of it for the next week. In his terror at the prospect of having to smoke that awful cigar to the bitter end, he had scarcely known what he was saying; and it was not until Felgate charged him with being a sneak that he realised he had said anything to compromise his senior. Felgate was not one of the vulgar noisy sort of bullies, but a good deal worse.
I'll write out a list of the chaps, and you can get up an address, unless Felgate will come and give him a speech." "Think he will? All serene. We'll give the fellows the tip, and do the thing in style. Hadn't you better cut and get the ring, I say?" Arthur cut, armed with an exeat, and made the momentous purchase.
"What does he want to chat about, I wonder?" said Stafford. "The weather, of course!" growled Barnworth; "what else is there?" Stafford coloured up as usual when anyone laughed at him. "He wants to get us to take the oath of allegiance, you fellows," said Felgate. "`Will you walk into my parlour? said the spider to the fly, that's what he means. I think we'd better not go."
"I shall report you for this," said Felgate. "Ha! ha! ha! you're not a monitor, my boy. Go and do it. We'll report you for invading our privacy. Say what you want there, can't you?" "You know what I want well enough," said Felgate, forced at last to recognise that entrance was hopeless. "What's the good of coming to tell us, then?" responded Dig.
"And what particular reason have you for getting Mr Chuckey a testimonial?" "Ha, ha!" said Arthur, who felt bound to laugh at the senior's joke. "Jolly good name for him. Oh, some of the fellows think he's backed us up, you know, about Bickers and all that. Thanks awfully for the sixpence, Felgate. I'll be sure and stick your name at the top of the list. I say, when's that trial adjourned to?"
"I wasn't smoking," said Felgate. "No. You encouraged another boy to do what you dared not do yourself; that is hardly creditable in a prefect." Felgate shifted his ground. "There's nothing wrong in smoking," said he; "lots of fellows do it." "I do it myself," said Railsford bluntly, "but what has that to do with this matter?
"I am, sir." That was all over. The master smiled. The boys looked grave. "Won't you sit down?" said the former, drawing his own chair up to the hearth and poking the fire. Ainger and Felgate dropped into two seats, and Stafford, after a short excursion to a distant corner, deposited himself on another.
But they were young, and did not know much of law courts. "Of course you must not show one another your notes," said Ainger; "that would spoil all." "Ta-ta," said the baronet rather dismally to his chum; "they call me Tomkins!" "The junior counsel for the prosecution, of course, are to sit behind Barnworth, and for the defence behind Felgate.
A few knotty questions, as the reader knows, were awaiting the Master of the Shell on his arrival, but he took them one at a time, and not having been involved in the previous altercations respecting them, disposed of them a great deal more easily than had been expected. Things had been coming to a climax rather rapidly between Felgate and Ainger.
"I never did it before," whimpered Bateson it was hardly necessary to say that. "I didn't know it was any harm. Felgate said it would do me good. Please, Mr Railsford, may I put it in the fire? I'll never touch such a beastly thing again." And as Railsford said nothing to prevent it, he flung the origin of his evils into the fire. "Now go to your room," said the master.
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