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Updated: June 23, 2025
Scaife was popular with the Fifth because as John discovered later he cheerfully lent money to some of them and never pressed for repayment. And Scaife's getting his "fez" before he was fifteen might be reckoned an achievement. Caesar, in particular, could talk of nothing else. He predicted that the Demon would be Captain of both Elevens, school racquet-player, and bloom into a second C. B. Fry.
Not a boy in Damer's team was Scaife's equal as a player, but in Scaife's strength lay the weakness of the Manorites. They relied upon one player; Damer's pinned faith to eleven. As it happened to be a fine day, the School turned out in force to witness the match. Most of the masters were present, and some ladies. Rutford, however, had business elsewhere.
But the explanation is almost too simple to be recorded: he wished to convince a friend that he would attempt anything to prove his friendship. That night they went together to Scaife's room. The second-best room in the Manor, situated upon the first floor, it overlooked the back of the garden, where there was a tangled thicket of laurustinus and rhododendron.
Meantime, the coast would be clear for Desmond. John, in fine, was playing the part of a pilot-engine. But where was Warde? The question answered itself within a minute, and after a fashion absolutely unforeseen. As John was crossing from the shrubbery to the wicket he looked back. To his horror, he saw lights in the boys' side, light in the window of Scaife's room.
We'd have had a hot time if it hadn't been for him," and so forth. . . . And, indeed, to doubt Scaife's sincerity and goodness seemed at times gross disloyalty, because he stood, firm as a rock, between the two urchins in his room and the turbulent crowd outside.
"Not my own," said the Caterpillar; adding, as usual, "My governor's, you know." "Warde hasn't a soft job ahead of him," said Desmond. "Soft or hard, he'll handle it his own way." Desmond went out, wondering what had become of Scaife. Scaife was in his room, talking to Lovell senior, who had spent a fortnight with Scaife's people In Scotland, fishing and grousing.
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