Mike

tories he had read the whole school came back by the same train, and, having smashed in one another's hats

none of the fellows came back by this train," he said. "Heaps of them

te they can possibly manage. Silly idea. I s

aid Bob. "Come and ha

rig

ng the fact that he would be in the way;

will want to see you, and tell you all about things, which is your dorm. and so on. See you later," he concluded airily. "Any one'll tell you the way to the sch

it is simplicity itself. Probably he really does imagine that he goes straight on, ignoring the fact that for him the cho

untain and an equestrian statue in its centre. On the fourth repetition of this feat he stopped in a disheartened way, and

as a short, thick-set figure clad in grey flannel trousers, a blue blazer,

e way to the school

and a pair of very deep-set grey eyes which somehow put Mike at his ease. There was something singularly cool and genial about th

said the stranger. "Be

" sai

ouse do

in'

ght man this time. What I don't kno

u there

holidays. There's no

Wyatt, then

n the detective story always says to the detective, who's se

saying something abo

your br

He's in Do

make of Jackson, latest model, with all the mo

thers,"

e a team, then? Are you a s

hool. Only a private school,

? What was you

y. "It was only against kids, you know." He wa

useful. Any m

id Mike,

w m

as a good bit bigger than most of the chaps there. And my pater always has

ling. We shall want some batting in the house this term. Look

"My brother and Firby-Smith hav

w he lived in your part of th

"Why is he called Gazeka

ooks like one? What d

ays delicate work answering a question like this unless one h

prince of the blood dropping a gracious word to one of the three Small-Heads at the Hippodrome, but that'

and insignificance. Everything looked so big--the buildings, the grounds, everything. He felt out of the picture. He was glad that h

houses which lined the road on the south side of the cricket fiel

" he said. "How many fe

this term,

an there were a

King-H

chool I was at

y remote and unreal

al of punting and drop-kicking in the winter and fielding-practice in the summer. The next terrace was the biggest of all, and formed the first eleven cricket ground, a beautiful piece of turf, a shade too narrow for its length, bounded on the terrace side by a sharply sloping bank, some fifteen feet deep, and on the other by the pr

were signs of activity, however, inside; and a smell of so

ron's room, a small room ope

said. "Which dormitory

n consult

n yours

other bed? There are going to

st heard that he is not coming back this term. H

in the world," said Wyatt. "I've often thought of giving him Roug

e passage, and up

are," sa

e window, heavily barred, lo

said Wyatt, "but the house is so full

er a rag to get out of the window on to that wall at nig

m curiously, and m

ause you'd go getting caught, and dropped on, which isn't

t moment he was standing with it in his

e!" sai

ir putty. "I get out at night myself because I think my health needs it. Besides, it's my last term, anyhow, so

e, reluctantly. "But

t. Promise you w

I say, what do

mply keeps them bright and interested in life; and if you miss you've had all the fun anyhow. Have you ev

ou'd let

l take you over the rest of the school. You'll have to see