The Flying Boat

re of the greatest interest was perhaps the spot where certain big fellows of the sixth were engaged in a friendly preliminary rivalry for the high jump. There was Reginald Hattersley-Carr, w

--though, to be sure, he had little chance of being unduly speculative on his school pocket-money. And there was Ted Burroughs, Errington's particular chum, equally tall, almost equally popular, but as different in temperament as any man could be. Burroughs was popular because he was such a downright fellow, open as the day, a fellow everybody trusted.

on by a small crowd of boys in the lower school. Hattersley-Carr had just cleared five feet three, and Errington was stripping off hi

n to see yo

d Errington. "Who

ner by the look of him: in fact, wh

ted, with a droll look at Burrough

and he said as how he'd like to see; not m

e inevitable. But it was the law of the place that an afternoon visitor should be invited to tea at the prefects' table, and Errington, with

"--and with a half-humorous shrug he put on his swea

eet in height, slight, thin, with a very long pigtail, and a keen, alert countenance that wore an expression of vivid curiosity. There was a tittering and nudging among the smaller boys, who, however, did not desist from their occupations, and only shot an occasional side-l

. They call him the Mole here. Hats--Ha

nd him, gave the visitor the faintest possible acknowledgment, and then looked over his head, as if he no longer existed. Errington afterwards declared that he sniffed. Burroughs caugh

of Mr. Ellington

and was on the point of rapping out something that wou

d half-an-inch higher," he said. "

competitors by half-an-inch. Mr. Ting was as keen a spectator as any boy in the crowd, which, now that the jumping furnished a pretext, had grown much larger by the afflux of many who were m

Is it allowed for

s astonishment with an effort. "But----" He gl

after the other, he took off his boots, tucked up his robe about his

d up on each side, prepared to laugh, and pick up the little man when he fell, and give him an ironical cheer. Hattersley-Carr stood by one post, his hands on his hips, his lips wrinkled in a sneer. Errington and the Mole stood together near him, the forme

r the grass. His pace quickened; within three yards of the bar he seemed to crouch almost to the ground; then up he flew, his pigtail flying out behind him, the eyes and mouths of the

ke hands with him; a score flung their caps into the air; a hundred roared and yelled like Red Indians. Errington grinned at Hattersley-Carr; Bu

rooped off, some to the changing-rooms, the idle onlookers to talk over the Chinaman's performa

ass!" sai

w m

or--confidential secretary,

: how was I to know yo

ouldn't be such

on his heel and strode alone out of