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Once, he felt, was more than enough; and when a fag from Appleby's had brought him Stanning's note, containing an invitation to a second jaunt of the kind, he had refused to be lured into the business again. "Yes, I got the note," he said. "Then why didn't you come? Mitchell was asking where you were." "It's so beastly risky." "Risky! Rot." "We should get sacked if we were caught."
I mean, I'm glad we haven't been such fools as we might have been. You see, we only had Stanning's word to go on." Sheen started. "Stanning!" he said. "What do you mean?" "He was the chap who started the story. Didn't you know? He told everybody." "I thought it was Drummond," said Sheen blankly. "You remember meeting me outside his study the day after? I thought he told you then." "Drummond!
"And then you can come here regular," said Joe Bevan, "and we'll train you till you're that fit you could eat bricks, and you'll make babies of them up at Aldershot." Bruce had been perfectly correct in his suspicions. Stanning's wrist was no more sprained than his ankle.
It is true that at least one of his injuries had been the work of a Pauline whom he had met in the opening bout; but the great majority were presents from Ripton, and Drummond had described the dusky one, in no uncertain terms, as a holy terror. These things had sunk into Stanning's mind. It had been generally understood at Wrykyn that Peteiro had left school at Christmas.
One afternoon, not long after Sheen's conversation with Linton, Stanning came into Seymour's senior day-room and sat down on the table. The senior day-room objected to members of other houses coming and sitting on their table as if they had bought that rickety piece of furniture; but Stanning's reputation as a bruiser kept their resentment within bounds. "Hullo, you chaps," said Stanning.
After all, who was Stanning? What right had he to come and sit on tables in Seymour's and interfere with the affairs of the house? The allusion to "last time" was lost upon Sheen, but he saw that it had not improved Stanning's position with the spectators. He opened the door. "Good bye, Stanning," he said. "If I hadn't hurt my wrist " Stanning began. "Hurt your wrist!" said Sheen.
I bagged the Sportsman early, and hid it. They are going to get the surprise of their lifetime. I said I'd come up and fetch you." "I shan't go," said Sheen. Linton looked alarmed. "Oh, but I say, you must. Don't spoil the thing. Can't you see what a rag it'll be?" "I'm not going to sweat downstairs for the benefit of the senior day-room." "I say," said Linton, "Stanning's there." "What!"
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