Head of Kay's

shouted

feet as if he had h

dramatic by theabruptness with which he had exploded

oesn't see thepoint of handing you over to Kay. But the Old Man insisted, so hecaved in. He wanted to see you as soon as you arr

yself, but if he's studied underSilver he ought to know how to manage a house. I'll take him. Adviseour Mr Blackburn to that effect, and ask him to deliver the goods athis earliest convenience. Adoo, mess-mate, adoo!' And there youare--that's how it was.""But what's wrong with Fenn?""My dear chap! Remember last term. Didn't Fenn have a regular scrapwith Kay, and get shoved into extra for it? And didn't he wreck theconcert in the most sportsmanlike way with that encore of his? Thinkthe Old Man is going to take that grinning? Not much! Fenn made aripping fifty against Kent in the holidays--I saw him do it--but theydon't count that. It's a wonder they didn't ask him to leave. Ofcourse, I think it's jolly rough on Fenn, but I don't see that you canblame them. Not the Old Man, at any rate. He couldn't do anythingelse. It's all Kay's fault that all this has happened, o

re," he added, after a pause,"there's no reason, you know, why this should make any difference. Tous, I mean. What I mean to say is, I don't see why we shouldn't seeeach other just as often, and so on, simply because you are in anotherhouse, and al

" said Kenned

ndsee Blackburn now."Mr Blackburn was in his study. He was obviously disgusted andirritated by what had happened. Loyalty to the headmaster, and anappreciation of his position as a member of the staff led him to tryand conceal his feelings as much as possible in his interview withKennedy,

ok forward to seeing you bowl us allout in the house-matches next summer," he added, with a smile, "thoughwe shall expect a few full-pitches to leg, for the sake of old times."He meant well, but the picture he conjured up almost made Kenned

ns thathave led to this change. You must know that you are being sent to pullMr Kay's house together. This is strictly between ourselves, ofcourse. I think you have a difficult task before you, but I don'tfancy that you will find it too much for you. And mind you

asonly next door, he could not get rid of the feeling that he was abo

greet him like a brother, and he would brew in the same study in whichhe had always brewed, and sit in the same chair; but it would n

e felt more than ever how entirely his school life had beenbound up in his house. From his first day at Eckleton he had beentaught the simple cr

elast place in front of Challis on the strength of a tremendous catchfor the house second in a scratch game two days before thehouse-matc

ndured leaving all thiswhen his time at school was up, for that would have been the naturalresult of the passing of years. But to be transplanted abruptly andwith a wrench from

cerning Mr Kay and his wicked works,and, when the operation was concluded, helped Kennedy carry h

wed him his dormitory and study with a lack of genialitywhich added a deeper tinge of azure to Kennedy's blues. "So you'vecome to live here, have you?" her manner seemed to say; "well, I pityyou, that's all. A nice time _you're_ going to have."Kennedy spent the half-hour before go

d went out, turned off atthe main. Kennedy l

experience the disconcerting wayin which a dormitory greets an intruder. It was difficult to know how

The matron had told the housemaids; thehousemaids had handed it on to their ally, the boot boy; t

n the ranks of the Eckletoneleven. He went to his bed and began to undress without a word,feeling rather than seeing the eyes that were peering at him. When hehad completed the performance of disrobing, he blew out the candle andgot into bed. The silence was broken by numerous coughs, of thatshort, suggestiv

aid Kennedy, to t

giggler appeared to be rap

that row,"

iggling

y fell asleep fearingthat he was going to have trou