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But they're not going to have it all their own way in Welch's again. Our club's going ahead like blazes now, and we've challenged them for a return match the day before break-up." "There's Tedbury out," says Telson. "Twenty runs he's made not a bad score. We'd better cheer him, I say."
No, reader, Riddell had a Friend at Willoughby dearer even than old Wyndham, and nearer than Fairbairn, or Porter, or Crossfield, and that night when all the school was asleep, little dreaming what its captain did, he went to that Friend and told Him all his difficulties about Welch's, and his anxieties about young Wyndham, and even his unhappiness about the boat-race; and in doing so found himself wonderfully cheered and ready to face the new duty, and even hopeful of success.
"Ay, sir," said he. "Poor things, they hain't a found us out yet." The talking puzzled the bird, if it did not alarm him, and he flew up to the nearest tree, and, perching there, inspected these new and noisy bipeds at his leisure. Hazel now laid his hand on Welch's shoulder and reminded him gently they had a sad duty to perform, which could not be postponed.
The next morning he was scarcely disappointed at finding nothing in the piteous little stocking, except the original holes. The years that stole silently over the heads of the old man and the young child in Welch's Court brought a period of wild prosperity to Stillwater. The breath of war blew the forges to a white heat, and the baffling problem of the mediaeval alchemists was solved.
Then turning to Riddell, he said, "I am glad to hear your opinion of Welch's house, Riddell, and to find that you seem to understand what is wrong there. What should you say to taking charge of that house in future?" This was breaking the news suddenly, with a vengeance, and Riddell fairly gaped at the head master as he sat back in his chair, and wondered if he had heard aright.
Then she got calmer, and then she wondered and puzzled herself; but she slept no more that night. In the morning she found that the fire was lighted on a sort of shelf close to the boat. Mr. Hazel had cut the shelf and lighted the fire there for Welch's sake, who had complained of cold in the night. While Hazel was gone for the crayfish, Welch asked Helen to go for her prayer-book.
After supper, Helen sat busy over the fire, where some gum, collected by Hazel, resembling India-rubber, was boiling; she was preparing to cover a pair of poor Welch's shoes, inside and out, with a coat of this material, which Hazel believed to be water-proof. She sat in such a position that he could watch her. It was a happy evening. She seemed content.
"I'd as soon back Welch's boat as theirs. Fairbairn's the only man that does any work, and he's no form at all. Why don't they put the new captain in the boat, I wonder?" The bare idea was sufficient to set the company laughing, in the midst of which the assembly-dispersed. "By the way," said Game to Ashley, as they went into the "Big," "to- night is the opening meeting of the School Parliament.
And, as it happened, there was a little celebration which badly wanted celebrating, and for which only a chance like the present could have been considered favourable. In other words, there was a rather long score which the juniors of Parrett's were anxious to settle up with the juniors of Welch's.
"What, sir!" at length he gasped; "I take charge of Welch's!" "Yes, my boy," said the doctor, quietly. "Oh, I could never do it, sir!" exclaimed Riddell, pale at the very notion. "Try," said the head master. "It may not be so impossible as you think." "I'm not popular, sir," faltered Riddell, "and I've no influence. Indeed, it would only make things worse. Try some one else, sir. Try Fairbairn."
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