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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Well, to judge by his looks he might have been the culprit himself," said Porter, laughing. "Hullo, here's young Wyndham." "Where are you off to?" asked Fairbairn, with due monitorial solemnity, of that flighty youth; "don't you know it's nearly eight?" "Oh, do you mind my going across to Riddell's?" asked the boy; "he'll think I've cut him if I don't show up.
Late as the hour was, he went at once to Riddell's study. Riddell was half-undressed as his visitor entered. "What do you want?" he inquired. "I want you! Do you mean to say you've reported me to the doctor?" "Of course. It was a fight. I'm bound to report it." "Bound to report it. You snivelling humbug! Have you sent the name up yet?"
And he went, leaving Riddell very uncomfortable. Why should he be so eager to go? Why should he always seem so restless now whenever he was in that study? Why should he always avoid any reference to Ah! here he was back again. A gleam of hope shot through Riddell's breast as he saw the door open and Wyndham re-enter. Perhaps, after all, the boy was going to stay and give him a chance.
No sooner had King gone than he took up his Virgil and paper, and repaired once more to Riddell's study. "Please, Riddell," said he, meekly, "do you mind me writing my lines here?" "Not a bit," said Riddell, whose study was always open house to his youthful fag.
On the right the allied troops were lined up as follows: the Connaught Rangers, Fifty-seventh Wilde's Rifles, the Ferozepore Brigade, the 129th Baluchis, the Jullundur Brigade, and General Riddell's battalions. The Sirhind Brigade was held in reserve. The German artillerymen apparently knew the distances and topography of the entire region and poured a leaden hail upon the allied troops.
The last wicket fell for ninety-two, a respectable total, of which fifty-nine had been made off the Parretts' batsmen, and thirty- three off the schoolhouse. Indeed, the advantage of the schoolhouse did not end there. Out of three catches not counting Riddell's they had made two, while of the five wickets which had been taken by the bowling, they claimed three against their rivals' two.
"Because," replied Fairbairn, taking Riddell's arm and walking slowly off "because we can do better without you." Gilks stared at him a moment as though he meditated flying at him. If he did, he thought better of it, and turned away, muttering to himself that he would pay them all out, let them see if he did not.
"I'm going to Riddell's," said Wyndham, determined for once to stand by his colours and have nothing more to do with this tempter. Silk's face fell, as it always did when Riddell's name was mentioned. He had imagined the boy was coming to see him, and it did not please him to find himself mistaken. "Are you?" said he. "Come along to my study first, though; I want to speak to you."
General Riddell's Brigade was sent to Fortuin and with the Lahore Division on its left was told to retake St. Julien and the woods to the west of the village. Beyond the Yperlee Canal, on the left, the French made an assault on Lizerne, supported by the Belgian artillery; while the French colonial soldiers poured on Pilkem from the sector about Boesinghe.
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