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He did not, however, dare to suggest this, lest Wildney should charge him with cowardice, and betray it to the rest. Besides, the adventure had its own excitement, the stars looked splendid, and the stolen waters were sweet. "I hope we shan't be seen crossing the play-ground," said Wildney. "My eye, shouldn't we catch it!"
"Well; we've got six already, that's quite enough." "Yes; but two fowls isn't enough for six hungry boys." "No, it isn't," said Wildney. He thought a little, and then, clapping his hands, danced about and said, "Are you game for a regular lark, Eric?" "Yes; anything to make it less dull. I declare I've very nearly been taking to work again to fill up the time."
Everybody knew that had he properly exerted his abilities he was capable of beating almost any boy; so, to quiet his conscience, he professed to ridicule diligence as an unboyish piece of muffishness, and was never slow to sneer at the "grinders," as he contemptuously called all those who laid themselves out to win school distinctions. "Ha, ha!" said Wildney, "that's rather good!
Rose, and after tea he left the room for a few minutes while the tables were cleared for "preparation," and the boys were getting out their books and exercises. All the study and class-room boys were expected to go away during this interval; but Eric, not noticing Mr. Rose's entrance, sat gossipping with Wildney about the dinner and its possible consequences to the school.
"Here it is at last," said Wildney. "Now, then, for the key. Here's a letter for me, hurrah! two for you, Miss Trevor what people you young ladies are for writing to each other! None for you, Monty Oh, yes! I'm wrong, here's one; but none for Eric." "I expected none," said Eric sighing; but his eye was fixed earnestly on one of Mrs. Trevor's letters.
"I've got something unpleasant to say," he announced, raising his voice. "Hush! hush! hush! what's the row?" asked half a dozen at once. "The whole of the cricket money, some six pounds at least, has vanished from the box in my study!" For an instant the whole room was silent; Wildney and Graham interchanged anxious glances. "Does any fellow know anything about this?"
"What lucky dogs you are to get off," said many boys to them. "Yes, it's precious lucky for me," said Wildney. "If I'd been caught at this kind of thing a second time, I should have got something worse than a swishing." "Well, it's all through you I escaped," said Eric, "you knowing little scamp." "I'm glad of it, Eric," said Wildney in his fascinating way, "since it is all through me you went.
Immediately after came a rap at the door, and in walked Wildney, as he often did after the rest were gone to bed, merely slipping his trousers over his nightshirt, and running up to the studies. "Well, you'll come to the Anti-muffs, won't you?" he said. "To that pestilential place again? not I." Wildney looked offended. "Not after we've all asked you? The fellows won't half like your refusing."
Horrible visions of a trial for burglary, imprisonment in the castle jail, and perhaps transportation, presented themselves to their excited imaginations, as the sound of the footsteps came nearer. "I can't run any further, Eric," said Wildney. "What shall we do? don't leave me, for heaven's sake." "Not I, Charlie. We must hide the minute we get t'other side of this hedge."
Upon my word, you're cool, to speak of any of my associates in that way," said Eric, now thoroughly angry. "Associates!" retorted Montagu, hotly; "pretty associates! How do you expect anything good to go on, when fellows high in the school like you have such dealings with the refined honorable Brigson, and the exemplary intellectual Wildney?"
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