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If it went out that the School captain had been present, everyone, at any rate, would have to admit there had been fair play and no opening for dispute, whatever the result might be. So Smedley, although it might be to see his own record beaten, came down to the fields that morning.
"My family here have received me as their own; and Mr. Smedley had no trouble in recognizing me. So perhaps you'd better be packing your grip again, Cousin Randolph, and returning to your secret Government duties over in France!" "But how could you have reached here so far ahead of me?" gritted the disgusted Randolph weakly.
"You may think it a joke, dear old chap," said Ainger, standing at the door and watching his retreating figure, "but even the captain of Grandcourt will have to sit up by-and-by." Smedley, the brave and impetuous, walked straight from Railsford's to the doctor's. He knew his was a useless mission, but he wasn't going to shirk it.
"What!" said Smedley, rather alarmed. "Surely you're not going to " "To roast the doctor? No. But we're going to make this the crack house of the school in spite of him." Smedley laughed. "Good! You've a busy time before you, old man. I'll promise to keep it dark ha! ha!"
"You must see they do not go to pieces, Smedley," said the doctor; "it would be unworthy of the school if they did. As for Mr Railsford's boys, I have said what I had to say to them, and have nothing more to add." "But Mr Railsford himself, sir," began the captain, desperately playing his last card; "we hoped he "
The following typical case of undoubted identification of a visiting spirit is related by Smedley in his work concerning spiritualistic experiences, and may be taken as a pattern to be followed by investigators in demanding and obtaining proofs of identity in cases where same is asserted.
"The only stumbling-block that I'm aware of, Randolph," said Mr. Smedley suavely, "is a little matter of priority." "But I am the first to appear before you, Mr. Smedley, and there were but two contestants for the property. Isn't that true?" demanded the newcomer, frowning at the thought that some unexpected legal tangle was about to appear.
He was shaking his fist above his head, after the fashion of the song at the school suppers, when he suddenly stopped short at the sight of the doctor, and realised the horror of the situation. "Go on, Mr Smedley," said Miss Violet, "finish the verse. We shan't be a moment, uncle." But Smedley could as soon have finished that verse as fly up the chimney.
And Abram Gee brought twenty-five loaves of bread of different sizes, but all on 'em good. And he looked at Ardelia Tutt every minute of the time. And Ardelia brought a lot of verses, "Stanzas on a Grandmother." I didn't think they would do Grandma Smedley much good, and then on the other hand I didn't s'pose they would hurt her any.
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