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"One doesn't pretend to be a Christian, but as a gentleman one accepts a bit of bad luck without gnashing one's teeth. What? That Spartan boy with the fox was a well bred 'un, you take my word for it. Scaife isn't." The Caterpillar joined another pair of boys before Desmond could reply. John looked uncomfortable. Then Desmond burst out with Irish vehemence
Very humbly he worshipped at a distance. On clear, dry days Fluff and he would climb to the top of the wall of the squash racquet-courts to see Scaife and Desmond play a single. They were extraordinarily well-matched in strength, activity, and skill. John noticed, however, that the Demon lost his temper when he lost a game, whereas Caesar only laughed.
"But he stopped laughing when I gave him Trieve's message, and then he said what Lovell told you, sir." "Never mind what Lovell told me. Give me your version of the story." "Scaife asked the other fellows if Trieve had any right to fag him, now that he had got his 'fez. If he had been drunk, sir, he wouldn't have thought of that, would he?" "Um," said Rutford, slightly shaken.
The Fifth formed a group; holding a council of war, engrossed in trying to find a way out of a wood which of a sudden had turned into a tangled thicket. And so what each would have strenuously prevented came to pass. Scaife pulled a bottle from under a sofa-cushion, and put it to his lips John, standing at the door, could not see what was taking place.
The matter in hand was so vital that he could not touch it with firm hands or voice. He spoke at his worst, and he knew it; concluding an incoherent and slightly inarticulate recital of the reasons which ought to keep Scaife in his house at night with a lame "Two heads ought to prevail against one." Scaife showed his fine teeth. "You think that? Your head and Caesar's against mine?"
Indeed, John himself, detesting Scaife for it had come to that fearing him on Desmond's account, admired him notwithstanding: captivated by his amazing grace, good looks, and audacity. His recklessness held even the "Bloods" spellbound. A coach ran through Harrow in the afternoons of that season.
"I expect he'll make an awful ass of himself." "Oh no, he won't," Desmond replied. "He's a clever fellow is Jonathan." As he gave John his nickname, Desmond's charming voice softened. A boy of less quick perceptions than Scaife would have divined that the speaker liked John, liked him, perhaps, better than he knew. Scaife frowned.
Scaife fielded brilliantly, and John, watching him, said to himself that at such times the Demon was irresistible, Warde invited the Eleven to dinner, and spoke of nothing but football, much to every one's amusement. "He's right," said the Caterpillar; "we're not cock-house at cricket this year, but we may be at footer."
And he had taken time to come down to Harrow to hear the boys sing. And, dash it all! he, John, was going to sing to him. At that moment Desmond was whispering to Scaife "I say, Demon; I'm jolly glad that I've not got to sing before him. I bet Jonathan is in a funk." "A big bit of luck," replied Scaife, reflectively.
This defence of the weak, this guarding of green fruit from the maw of Lower School boys, afforded Scaife an opportunity of exercising power. He had the instincts of the potter, inherited, no doubt; and he moulded the clay ready to his hand with the delight of a master-workman.
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