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The Doctor signed to us to go, and we were taken through the house and servants' offices, so as not to attract the attention of the boys, reaching the yard at last, and entering the stable. My ears seemed to have bells ringing in them as we stood there, and I heard the Doctor say, "Rather an awkward place for me to get up, Mr Rebble; but I suppose I must try."
By him was a boy with a book, reading in a highly-pitched voice which did not seem to fit him, being, like his clothes, too small for such a big fellow, with his broad face and forehead all wrinkled up into puckers with the exertion of reading. "Tchish! tchish! Silence!" said Mr Rebble, giving three stamps on the floor. "Now go on, Dicksee." "I say, do listen," said the boy by my side.
For my mother and my uncle had come down to fetch me, and say a few kind words to the Doctor and Mrs Doctor, as well as to visit Sir Hawkhurst. I saw Lomax too, and Mr Rebble and Mr Hasnip, at the door, and it seemed as if there was always some one fresh to shake hands with, the old sergeant shaking mine with both his, and his voice sounded very husky as he said,
It hurts a good deal, and the Doctor hits precious hard, but the pain soon goes off, and it will only please old Rebble if you seem to mind." Just then the door was opened, and our gaoler appeared again.
He led the way out and across the playground to a gate in the hedge, through which we passed, to come plump on the Doctor, three ladies, and Mr Rebble, who carried a creel by the strap, and had a rod over his shoulder. "So you've had no sport, Mr Rebble?" the Doctor was saying. "No, sir, none. The wind was in the wrong quarter again."
"We can't write and ask the party if either of them took a watch by mistake. Stop! I have it." "The watch?" cried Mr Hasnip eagerly. "No. Wait till he comes back, and I think I can explain it all." We had not long to wait before Burr major came back to us. "No, sir," he said. "I've looked everywhere; it isn't in my room." "Then I think I can help you," said Mr Rebble.
Then we sat down on our chairs by the heads of our beds and waited, and not long, for we soon heard steps on the stairs. "It's coming now," said Mercer, drawing a long breath. "Yes, it's coming now," I echoed softly, as a curious sensation of dread ran through me, and directly after the door was unlocked, and Mr Rebble appeared.
"What jacket and vest are those you have on?" "My third best, sir." "Are you sure?" "Yes, sir," said Burr major wonderingly. "Look at them," continued Mr Rebble. "Are they really your own things, and not the clothes of one of our visitors taken by mistake, and he has taken yours."
"Never mind, you may have altered your mind. Go and look. You see we have thoroughly searched every place where you could have been." "I'll go and look, sir," said Burr major, "but it's of no use." He went off toward the schoolhouse, and Mr Rebble then coming up, the two masters began to talk about the missing watch. "It is so awkward," said Mr Rebble.
"Yes, sir." "Take it out." Mr Rebble obeyed, and once more I met Mercer's eyes gazing at me wildly, and, as I interpreted the look, imploring me not to speak. The miserable stuffed distortion was brought out, and I felt half disposed to laugh at it, as I thought of my school-fellow's queer ideas for a group in natural history.
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