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"The fellows say he stole an exam paper, the blackguards! I'd like to punch all their heads, and I will too!" "Clear out of my study, now," said Wraysford, sharply. Stephen stared at him a moment. Then his face grew pale as he grasped the meaning of it all. "I say, Wray, surely you don't believe it?" he cried. "Go away now," was Wraysford's only answer.
No one attempted any demonstration, but while Mr Jellicott was speaking many perplexed and troubled faces turned to where Oliver, by the side of his friend Wraysford, was sitting. Wraysford's face was beaming as he clapped his friend on the back. Oliver looked as unconcerned and indifferent as ever. The fellow was a puzzle, certainly.
"Oh, all right, if it's wrong," snarled Pembury. "I tell you there's no fight; you can believe it or not as you like," and off he hobbled, in unusual ill-humour. This was a sad blow to the Fifth. They saw no comfort anywhere. They flocked to Oliver's study, but he was not there, and Wraysford's door was locked.
The sight of Greenfield senior walking down the passage one day, arm-in-arm with Wraysford, and the next day with one arm in Wraysford's and the other in Pembury's, and the day after between Pembury and Bullinger, with Wraysford and Stephen in the rear, struck bewilderment and bitter jealousy to their hearts.
Among those who kept the house was Oliver, who, in reply to Wraysford's invitation to go out, pleaded that he was not in the humour. This indeed was the case, for, now that Stephen's affairs were settled, the dread of the approaching Nightingale examination came back over him like a nightmare, and made him quite miserable.
"Oh, never mind, a plunge in the Shar will set you all right." "Stee," said he, addressing his younger brother, who at that moment entered proudly in his new capacity as Wraysford's fag, "mind you have breakfast ready sharp by eight, do you hear? the best you can get out of Wray's cupboard. Come along, old boy."
He was early at Wraysford's study, whom he found only just out of bed. "Look alive, old man. What do you say to a dip in the river before breakfast? We've got plenty of time, and it will wash off the cobwebs before the exam." "All serene," said Wraysford, not very cheerily, though. "Anything's better than doing nothing." "Why, Wray, I thought you weren't going to let yourself get down about it?"
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