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"I think I could tame young Bassington if I had your opportunities," a form-master once remarked to a colleague whose House had the embarrassing distinction of numbering Comus among its inmates. "Heaven forbid that I should try," replied the housemaster. "But why?" asked the reformer.
A kick freed his ankle and he staggered to his feet. At the same moment a sudden increase in the general volume of noise spoke eloquently of good work that was being put in by Psmith. Even at that crisis, Mike could not help feeling that if a row of this caliber did not draw Mr. Outwood from his bed, he must be an unusual kind of housemaster.
The messenger did not know. Mr. Downing, it seemed, had not confided in him. All he knew was that the housemaster was in the house, and would be glad if Mike would step across. "A nuisance," said Psmith, "this incessant demand for you. That's the worst of being popular. If he wants you to stop to tea, edge away. A meal on rather a sumptuous scale will be prepared in the study against your return."
He received the housemaster frostily, but thawed as the latter related the events which had led up to the ringing of the bell. "Dear me!" he said, deeply interested. "One of the boys at the school, you think?" "I am certain of it," said Mr. Downing. "Was he wearing a school cap?" "He was bareheaded.
Feeling aggrieved with himself that he had not thought of this before, he, too, hurried over to Outwood's. Mr. Downing was brisk and peremptory. "I wish to look at these boots again," he said. Psmith, with a sigh, laid down his novel, and rose to assist him. "Sit down, Smith," said the housemaster. "I can manage without your help."
Downing." "A sort of chameleon boot," murmured Psmith. The goaded housemaster turned on him. "What did you say, Smith?" "Did I speak, sir?" said Psmith, with the start of one coming suddenly out of a trance. Mr. Downing looked searchingly at him. "You had better be careful, Smith." "Yes, sir." "I strongly suspect you of having something to do with this." "Really, Mr.
This was the origin of testaments. In the ordinary course of law the freeman could not lose or surrender the inalienable blessing of freedom, and therefore one who was subject to no housemaster could not subject himself to another in the place of a son unless the community should grant him leave to do so.
At Wrykyn he had always charged in at the beginning of term at the boys' entrance, but this formal reporting of himself at Sedleigh suited his mood. He inquired for Mr. Outwood, and was shown into a room lined with books. Presently the door opened, and the housemaster appeared. There was something pleasant and homely about Mr. Outwood. In appearance he reminded Mike of Smee in Peter Pan.
The night was as still as only an English summer night can be, and the first clang of the clapper sounded like a million iron girders falling from a height on to a sheet of tin. He tugged away furiously, with an eye on the now rapidly advancing and loudly shouting figure of the housemaster.
Shall I take the shoe with me, sir?" "If Mr. Downing does not want it?" The housemaster passed the fraudulent piece of evidence to Psmith without a word, and the latter, having included both masters in a kindly smile, left the garden. Pedestrians who had the good fortune to be passing along the road between the headmaster's house and Mr.
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