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By the by, he sent all sorts of kind messages, and will come and see you." "Thanks; but about Harpour?" "Well, Flip meant to tell Somers, but the whole thing spread over the school at once, before morning chapel was well over; so, Dimock being head of Robertson's house, thought it was his place to take it up.
Harpour made a spring at Henderson to thrash him for these words, but again the burly Cradock interposed by saying, good-humouredly, as he put himself in Harpour's way, "There, stop squabbling, for goodness' sake, you two, and let's have a little peace. Flip, you shut up." Alas! how easily things go wrong! And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again!
Tracy again had openly deserted them. After the interview with Power, Harpour had abused him roundly as a turncoat, and he had told his former associates that he was sorry to have had anything to do with their machinations; that they were going all wrong, and were ruining the school, and that he at any rate felt that he had done mischief enough already, and meant to do no more.
"Poor child, poor child!" said Power, bending over him compassionately. "Has Flip told Somers of Harpour?" asked Walter. "I don't know whether you are quite up to hearing school news yet." "O yes! tell me all about it," said Walter eagerly. "Well, I've no good news to tell. It's a case of ponos ponoo ponon pherei, as Percival said when I told him about you and Eden.
Now it so happens that Jones and Harpour were bad boys, as I have shown already, in the worst sense of the word, and yet the real enjoyment which they felt in making little Eden's life miserable is an inexplicable phenomenon.
He knew, too, from other quarters how unsatisfactorily Kenrick had been going on, and the part he had taken in several acts of insubordination and disobedience. Accordingly, no sooner had Harpour, Jones, and Mackworth been banished from Saint Winifred's, than he sent for Kenrick, and administered to him a reprimand so uncompromising and stern, that Kenrick never forgot it to the end of his life.
This proof of their failing influence exasperated them greatly. Harpour threatened, and Mackworth said all the pungent and insulting things he could, contemptuously mimicking all Tracy's dandiacal affectations. Tracy winced under this treatment; high words followed, and after a scene of noisy altercation, Tracy broke with his former "party," and after the quarrel spoke to them no more.
The opposition to monitorial authority which Harpour had commenced, and Kenrick abetted, did not pass away at once; it left a large amount of angry feeling in the minds of numerous boys who had, each of them, influence in their several ways.
Anyhow, sneaking, or not, I'll do it." "If you do tell Somers, look out for yourself that's all." "I'm not afraid," was the brief retort. Harpour knew that he meant what he said, and, being now desperate, he got up half an hour earlier next morning to try and extort from him, by main force, a promise to hold his tongue about the affair of the night before.
So every voice was softened when they spoke to him, and the manner of even the roughest boys became to him affectionate and even caressing. If any had felt inclined to side with Harpour against the monitors before, the sight of Eden went far to alter their convictions. Yet the poor child was never happy except when he was in Walter's society, and in Power's study. Even there he was changed.
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