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Wontner stated, that he had received two communications from the Rev. Mr. Crosby, the chaplain of the institution, stating they would not interfere on his behalf. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Park observed, that the best course would be to send him out of the country."
'And did they photograph you in the sack? 'Good Heavens, no! Mr. Wontner shuddered. 'That's lucky. Awful thing to live down a photograph, isn't it? said Stalky to me as we reached the landing. 'I'm thinking of the newspapers, of course. 'Oh, but you can easily have sketches in the illustrated papers from accounts supplied by eye-witnesses, I said. Mr. Wontner turned him round.
Wontner through his teeth but the car's bonnet was between us, 'that this looks to me like I won't say conspiracy yet, but uncommonly like a confederacy. When injured souls begin to distinguish and qualify, danger is over. So I grew bold. ''Sorry you take it that way, I said. 'You come here in trouble
'Oh yes, he's quite clean all over! said Trivett; 'but his father's a wealthy barrister. 'Solicitor, Eames corrected, 'and so this Mister Wontner is out for our blood. He's going to make a first-class row about it appeal to the War Office court of inquiry spicy bits in the papers, and songs in the music-halls. He told us so. 'That's the sort of chap he is, said Trivett.
He says Wontner ought to learn manners first, but we thought Trivett turned to Eames, who was less a son of the house than himself, Eames's father being still alive. 'Then, Eames went on, 'he became rather noisome, and we thought we might as well impound the correspondence' he wrinkled his swelled left eye 'and after that, we got him to take a seat in my car.
We were much surprised at this Stalky would not let me express my surprise but we took it from Mr. Wontner, who said we might, that it was so. Next he touched on Colonels of the old school, and their cognisance of tactics.
Then he said quite hotly, 'I wish you to understand very clearly, my good man, that a gentleman's name can't be dragged through the gutter to bolster up the circulation of your wretched sheet, whatever it may be. 'It is I named a journal of enormous sales which specialises in scholastic, military, and other scandals. 'I don't know yet what it can't do, Mr. Wontner.
He had even sketched out some of the paragraphs that were to appear in the papers, and if Stalky had allowed me to speak, I would have told him that they were rather neatly phrased. 'You ought to be able to get whackin' damages out of 'em, into the bargain, said Stalky, after Mr. Wontner had outlined his position legally. 'My de-ah sir, Mr.
I say, the girls we knew must have been much better than they pretended they were; for I'll swear it isn't the fathers. 'But why on earth did you do it? The Infant was shouting. 'You know what it means nowadays. 'Well, sir, said Bobby Trivett, the taller of the two, 'Wontner talks too much, for one thing.
I assure you I couldn't have done it better myself. Thank you! He held out his hand. 'Thank you, sir! said Wontner, shaking it. 'I'm more grateful to you than I can say, and and I'd like you to believe some time that I'm not quite as big a 'Not in the least, Stalky interrupted. 'If I were writing a confidential report on you, I should put you down as rather adequate.
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