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Downing which hung on the wall when the housemaster came in. "An excellent likeness, sir," said Psmith, with a gesture of the hand toward the painting. "Well, Smith," said Mr. Downing shortly, "what do you wish to see me about?" "It was in connection with the regrettable painting of your dog, sir." "Ha!" said Mr. Downing.
"I had an aunt, sir," said Psmith chattily, "who was remarkably subject " "It is absurd. I cannot have been mistaken," said Mr. Downing. "I am positively certain the toe of this shoe was red when I found it." "It is undoubtedly black now, Mr. Downing." "A sort of chameleon shoe," murmured Psmith. The goaded housemaster turned on him. "What did you say, Smith?"
He knew nothing, of course, of the upset tin in the bicycle shed; but when a housemaster's dog has been painted red in the night, and when, on the following day, the housemaster goes about in search of a paint splashed shoe, one puts two and two together. Psmith looked at the name inside the shoe. It was "Brown bootmaker, Bridgnorth." Bridgnorth was only a few miles from his own home and Mike's.
It is a habit of which I altogether disapprove." "I am reading it, sir," said Psmith, with simple dignity, "for pleasure. Shall I take the boot with me, sir?" "If Mr. Downing does not want it?" The housemaster passed the fraudulent piece of evidence to Psmith without a word, and the latter, having included both masters in a kindly smile, left the garden.
Yet happiest is the man whom they shall tear in pieces, than he who shall live burdened by the curse of the Foes of the Gods. The housemaster looked on his son as the old carle spake, and a cloud gathered on his face a while; and when Stone-face had made an end he spake: 'This is long and evil talk for the end of a merry day, O fosterer!
Suddenly Desmond said: 'Do you remember that bother I got into at Eton, Pam? Pamela nodded. Didn't she remember it? A long feud with another boy ending in a highly organized fight absolute defiance of tutor and housemaster on Desmond's part and threatened expulsion. The Squire's irritable pride had made him side ostentatiously with his son, and Pamela could only be miserable and expect the worst.
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