The Gold Bat

somebody had sent the letter

on the subject

e inquired, when Clowes came int

tomorrow up to the sporter? I wonder w

ing Barry his

s reading

whom?" h

Can't yo

g him

er co

about

d tore it away from him. After

er about not giving Bar

nurse to whom the family baby has just

said, "I could

note, and flung it at him. Clowes

oter colours

ten sort of joke, whoever sent it. You

nding it? And I think you're making a mis

lly believe th

treatment'. I did. Anyhow, how do yo

f thing doesn't

as happened

nk did send the

dent of th

the President of the L

tell Mill, and earn his bl

suggest that on the strength of this lette

n brackets," c

all sorts of ways of getting at people they don't love. I shouldn't like to come down for a bath some morning, and find you already in possession, tied up like Robinson. When they found Robinson, h

all do is find out wh

lowes, encouraging

the threshold of his study on the day after the occurrence than had visited him in the entire course of his school career. Brown would come in to borrow a knife, would sweep the room with one comprehensive glance, and depart, to be followed at brief intervals by Smith, Robinson, and Jones, who came respectively to learn the right time, to borrow a book, and to ask him if he had seen a pencil anywhere. Towards the end of the day, Mill would seem to have wearied somewhat of the proceedings, as was proved when Master Thomas Renford, aged fourteen (who fagged for Milton, the head of the house), burst in on the t

t his beastly study. Why shouldn't I look at his study if I l

ly approved

aid Renford with a yawn. "It'

't it?" s

such a b

't he?" s

has been ragged," contin

rvey. "And I thought this term was going

ught to Renford, who made the following cryp

d have conveyed little meaning. To Ha

"I saw them earl

hey all

Sple

said R

of the disaster early, before Mill's energetic hand had repaired

all over the place. Whoever did it must have been fairly sick with him, or he'd never have t

to Wrykyn in the previous term. Drummond's father had met his father in Paris, and Drummond was supposed to be looking after Bertie

n?" he

. I was only appealing to you for corroborative detail to give

to the intellectual pressure of the conversation. As a consequence of w

aid Barry, "but I think it's

cked me--for making a row in the passage."

an excellent and praiseworthy act on Mill's

uired. "Or haven't they mad

aid they

inquiringly, as if to ask what he had come for. A friend may

He seated himself on the table, and d

t Mill, of co

"Have you seen his stu

es

amused him. He was one of those people w

the first tom

Barry, shortly. "I ha

It is never pleasant to have to discuss games

ion was an embarrassing one, for a few minute

chaps coming

ght they would, and t

don't want him, eh, Bertie? What

rinned p