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I don't suppose he's got the remotest idea that we are in the final at all, or, if he has, he doesn't understand what being in the final means." "But surely he'll be glad if you lick us tomorrow?" asked Kennedy. Such indifference on the part of a house-master respecting the fortunes of his house seemed to him, having before him the bright example of Mr Blackburn almost incredible.
Kennedy began to understand why it was that his friend felt so strongly on the subject of his house-master. If this was the sort of thing that happened every day, no wonder that there was dissension in the house of Kay. He tried to imagine Blackburn speaking in that way to Jimmy Silver or himself, but his imagination was unequal to the task.
Then he repeated what he had just said, with a slight variation for Warde's benefit. "Tell him I want to ask him a question about the house-subscriptions." "Right," said the fag, bustling off. Lovell waited to receive his house-master. He had very good manners. "Can I do anything for you, sir?" he asked. "Yes," said Warde, deliberately.
Nothing up to the present had made him realise the completeness of his exile so keenly as this remark of Mr Blackburn's about his bowling against the side for which he had taken so many wickets in the past. It was a painful thought. "I am afraid you won't have quite such a pleasant time in Mr Kay's as you have had here," resumed the house-master.
Why do you wish to go? This was something of a poser, but Barrett's brain worked quickly. 'I wanted to send a telegram, sir. 'Very well. But' with suspicion 'why did you not ask Mr Philpott? Your House-master can give you leave to go to Stapleton. 'I couldn't find him, sir. This was true, for he had not looked. 'Ah. Very well. 'Thank you, sir.
Nor did he easily grow fond of others. Wyatt he had regarded, from the moment when the threads of their lives became entangled, as a complete nuisance. It was not, therefore, a sorrowful, so much as an exasperated, vigil that he kept in the dormitory. There was nothing of the sorrowing father about his frame of mind. He was the house-master about to deal with a mutineer, and nothing else.
Then he wrote some two hundred letters to as many anxious parents and guardians, and bade the school carry on. The trouble did not spread, but, one night, a dog-cart drove to the Head's door, and in the morning the Head had gone, leaving all things in charge of Mr. King, senior house-master.
The new house-master sent for Kennedy on the first evening of term. He wished to find out how the Head of the house and the ex-Head stood with regard to one another. He knew the circumstances, and comprehended vaguely that there had been trouble. "I hope we shall have a good term," he said. "I hope so, sir," said Kennedy.
The seniors for the school had no tradition of deference to prefects outside compulsory games told them succinctly to go about their business. They would not give evidence on any terms. Harrison was one idiot, and Craye was another; but the greatest of all, they said, was their house-master.
And here begins the record of my Waterloo with Fillet. One June morning of the following year all we Bramhallites were assembled in the Preparation Room for our weekly issue of "Bank" or pocket-money; we were awaiting the arrival of Fillet, our house-master, with his jingling cash-box.
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