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He had just got the last place in front of Challis on the strength of a tremendous catch for the house second in a scratch game two days before the house-matches began. It had been a glaring fluke, but it had impressed Denny, the head of the house, who happened to see it, and had won him his place. He walked round the room, looking at each photograph in turn.
"There won't be a thing to do till the house-matches begin properly." Seymour's had won their first match, as had Day's. They would not be called upon to perform for another week or more. "Let's get a boat out," suggested Dunstable. "Such a beastly day." "Let's have tea at the shop." "Rather slow. How about going to Cook's?" "All right. Toss you who pays."
The fact that he had steered Kay's through into the last round of the house-matches proves still more. It was perfectly obvious to everyone that, if only you could get Fenn out for under ten, Kay's total for that innings would be nearer twenty than forty. They were an appalling side. But then no house bowler had as yet succeeded in getting Fenn out for under ten.
It was something of a consolation to Barry and his friends at any rate, to Barry and Drummond that directly after they had been evicted from their study, the house-matches began. Except for the Ripton match, the house-matches were the most important event of the Easter term. Even the sports at the beginning of April were productive of less excitement.
"It's better," said Kennedy. "Keener, at any rate. We shall do our best in the house-matches. But we aren't a good team." "Any more trouble about your being captain instead of Fenn?" "No. We both sign the lists now. Fenn didn't want to, but I thought it would be a good idea, so we tried it. It seems to have worked all right." "Of course, your getting your first has probably made a difference."
Meantime, the Torpid house-matches were coming on, and the School agreed, wonderingly, that Dirty Dick's had a chance of being cock-house. The fact that the Manor had lost caste brought about this possibility. Boys just under fifteen found room at the Manor when other houses were full.
We shall all be very sorry to lose you. I don't look forward to seeing you bowl us all out in the house-matches next summer," he added, with a smile, "though we shall expect a few full-pitches to leg, for the sake of old times." He meant well, but the picture he conjured up almost made Kennedy break down.
After the first of the football house-matches, Scaife got his "fez" from Lawrence, the captain of the House Eleven, and the only member of the School Eleven in Dirty Dick's. Some of the big fellows in the Fifth seized this opportunity to "celebrate," as they called it.
"I'm going over to Seymour's now," said Trevor, after a pause, "to see Milton. We've drawn Seymour's in the next round of the house-matches. I suppose you knew. I want to get it over before the Ripton match, for several reasons. About half the fifteen are playing on one side or the other, and it'll give them a good chance of getting fit.
When anything happened to him personally, he found the discomfort of being in a tight place largely counterbalanced by the excitement of trying to find a way out. But the impossibility of helping Fenn in any way depressed him. "It must be awful," he said, breaking the silence. "It is," said Fenn, briefly. "But haven't the house-matches made any difference?
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