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Updated: June 15, 2025
And while we speak here it comes. A County man has just darted up along the touch-line half the length of the field. Wren goes out to meet him, and behind Wren too close behind advances Oliver. The County man thinks twice before delivering himself up into the clutches of one of these heroes, and ends his run with a kick, which, Oliver being not in his place, Wraysford runs forward to take.
What do you say?" Braddy coloured. Pembury was always snubbing him. "I don't want to tell tales," he said. "What I mean is, Wraysford ought not to be cheated out of his scholarship." "It's a lucky thing Wray has got you to set things right for him," snarled Pembury, amid a general titter. Braddy subsided at this, and left his tormentor master of the situation.
He stood there for a minute or two after Oliver and Wraysford had left the room, too bewildered to collect his thoughts or realise one-half of his good fortune, for he had come to Oliver in his extremity as a desperate chance, fully expecting an angry rebuff or, at best, a chilling snub.
The result is as follows: First Greenfield, 108 marks; second Wraysford, 96 marks; third Loman, 20 marks." Here Mr Jellicott was interrupted by a laugh and a muttered "Bravo, Loman! very good!" in what sounded to the knowing something like Pembury's voice.
"Oh, all right; you can come and cox us yourself, youngster," said Wraysford. "Cox you!" exclaimed Paul; "why, ain't the Nightingale exam coming on, then, on Monday?" "Of course it is!" "And you two going out to row! I say, the Sixth will win it if you don't look-out!" said Paul, in a very concerned voice.
"Pretty well; but I hadn't time to touch the last question." "I knew, as soon as I saw you were entered for the exam," said Wraysford, "we had all been taking you up wrong. I can guess now why you went in for it." "Well, it struck me it might be a way of putting myself right with the fellows if I won; but I'm half afraid I won't win, and then their highnesses will be doubly sure of my villainy!"
"It looked like something more than rage," said Pembury, dismally, "something a good deal more." Wraysford said nothing, but fidgeted in his chair. A long silence followed, each busy with his own thoughts and both yearning for any sign of hope. "I don't see what good it could have done him if he did take the paper. He'd have no time to cram it up yesterday.
What ages it seems before it is done, and the noble Earl at last holds out the book and says, "I have great pleasure, Wraysford, in handing you this prize. Your schoolfellows are all proud of you; I feel sure you deserve their good opinion.
Oliver stared at him for a moment in a perplexed way, and then, without answering the question, walked somewhere else. Wraysford was quite conscious of his own mistake; still it hurt him sorely that his well-meant effort, which had cost him so much, should be thus summarily thrust aside without a word.
Wraysford, no less prompt, tackled one of the other blackguards, while Stephen, now released, and cured of his momentary terror by the appearance of the rescuers, did his share manfully with one of the others. The contest was short and sharp. A pair of well-trained athletic schoolboys, with a plucky youngster to help them, are a match any day for twice the number of half-tipsy cads.
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