Head of Kay's

pe of victory, for curious things happenat cricket, especially in the fourth innings of a match. And runs areadmitted to be easier saved than made. Yet seventy

his intimate friends, was not the man to depress histeam by letting i

get Fenn out for afew, they won't come near it."He did not add that in his opinion Fenn would take very good care thathe

an extra man in the deep,if I were you. That's where Fenn kept putting them last innings. Andyou'll want a short l

n."Kay's first pair were com

t short slip, called Silver's

t at the beginning ofKay's first innings, had now for his partner one Walton, a large,unpleasant-looking youth, said to be a bit of a bruiser, and known tobe a black sheep. He was one of those who made life at Kay's so clo

ver, and Walton, letting go at it with a semi-circularsweep like the drive of a golf

lton swept at it as before. There was a click, and Jimmy Silver, who

alton went out--reluctantly, murmuringlegends o

vable that Fenn might havechosen to go in first wicket down instead of opening the batting, butnot that he should go in second wicket. If Kay's were to win it wasessential that

newcomer. He must control hiscuriosi

in,"

blance into his batting. The head of Blackburn'swas stylish, and took no risks. His brother

ttowas defence, not defiance. He placed a straight bat in the path

quiet. Billy playedKennedy's fastest like a

realised a single, Wayb

second over saw him caught at

er complacently, as hewalked to the other e

seated on the grass by the side of the crease, fasteningthe top strap o

a sortof extra. I saw him going over to the School House, and I heard himtell Wayburn that he wouldn't be able to play till four."The effect produced by this communication would be most fittinglyexpres

ast out much longer. Kay's been ragging him allthe term. I went round to see him last night,

f the house-master are visited on the house. I'm afraid it will beour painful duty to wipe the floor

urtis's young hash. Try one."Kennedy followed the recipe. A ball later the middle and leg stumpswere lying in picturesque attitudes some yards behind the crease, andCurtis was beginning that "sad, unending walk to the pavilion",thinki

that they were going tostand no nonsense, settled their caps over their eyes, and prepared toreceive the ball. When it came it usually took a stump or two with itbefore it stopped. It was a procession such as the school grounds hadnot often seen. As t

the scene, Billy Silve

ff, came in quickly instead, andremoved a bail. Billy Silver had only made eight; but, as the fullscore

eventh man, with anexpression on his face th

cricketcostume as far as white buckskin boots. He wore no pads or gloves. Buteven in the face of these sartorial deficienci

er, for Billy Silver'scollapse had occurred a

es not improve the eye. The bal

l face of thebat to it, and it hummed past coverpoint to

d of it, with the exceptionof the one that bowled him. Fenn seemed to be able to do what hepleased with the bowling. Kennedy he played with a shade more respectthan the others, but he

Fenn madetwelve off his first over. The pavilion was fille

d a hasty consultation withKennedy. The tele

an't you manage to keepFenn from scoring odd figures off the last ball of your over? If onlythat kid at the othe

e fifth he drove to the on. It was abig hit, but there was a fieldsman in the neighbourhood. Still, it wasan easy two. But to Kennedy's surprise Fenn sent his partner ba

said the umpire--Lang, of theSchool

ls, and now his partner,who had no pretensions t

ke lost Kay'

had never losthis head or his length. He was bowling ful

scoopedblindly forward, missed it by a foot, and the next mom