The Gold Bat
ice was a treble voice. This surprised O'Hara. It looked verymuch as if he had put up the wrong b
ra, who had beenfumbling all this while in his pocket for a match, found one loose, andstruck a
here?"Renford, however, continued to pursue the topic of his arm, a
broken it," he sa
ebody else. Who's that with you?""I
ow light lit up the more immediateneighbourhood
re, O'Hara, you won'tsplit, will you?""I'm not
se one isn't allowed down here, and there'd be a beastly row if itgot ou
they?" as
We couldn't keep them in the house, as they'd have gotdropped on in a second, so we had to think of somewhere else, andthought why not k
"And what do ye do with the rabbits?""We pot at them as they come out of the holes.""Yes, but when ye hit 'em?""Oh," said Renford, with some reluctance, "we haven't exactly hit anyyet.""We've got jolly near, though, lots of times," said Harvey. "LastSaturday I swear I wasn't more than a quart
rrets. We waited till they'd got well in, then wenipped out quietly. They didn't see us.""D
ns on the chairs. Switc
ppers? Quite tame, too.
y', you know. Don't let him nip yourfingers. This other one's Sherlock Holmes.""Cats-s-s--s!!" said O'
able to show his ferrets off
rvey, when the littleanimals had had their mea
plain, their curiositywould be roused, which would be fatal. And to give any reason exceptthe true one called for a display of impromptu invention of which hewas not capable. Besides,
s comment
ve!" he
more deeply in
think they meet do
don't see what object they could have down hereif they weren't the League holding a meeting.
ight?" asked Harvey. He had a great respect for O'Hara, whosereputation in the school for out-of-the-way doings was considerable. Inthe bright lexicon of O'Har
to a soul"--a warning whichextracted fer
l catch them?""He must if he waits down there long enough. They're certain to comeagain. Don't you wish you'd been here when the League
ut-turned legs, and, pushing open thedoor, went out into the open air. It felt very fresh and pleasant afterthe brand of atmosphere supplied in the vault. He then ran over to thegymnasium to meet Moriarty, feeling a little dis
play a wa
appened, that O'Hara lef
was of small consequence. A good deal of latitude in that way wasallowed at Wrykyn. It was the custom to go out, after the bell hadsounded, to visit the gymnasium. In the winter and Easter terms, thegym
and Moriarty would be sparring their nightlysix rounds (in two batches of three rounds each). In another, Drummond,who was going up to Aldershot as a feather-weight, would be putting ina little practice with the instructor. On the
n the school were so
ed with sightseeing, yo
peculiar beauty of the
e apaper?" Whereupon, he, taking a scrap of paper, would write upon it,"J. O. Jones (or A. B. Smith or C. D. Robinson) left gymnasium atsu
Consequently, certainlawless spirits would range the neighbourhood after lock-up, and, byputting in a quarter of an hour at
the vault when they arrived. Moriarty, to whom he confided between the
said O'Hara. "One of these nights we'll take anight off from boxing, and go and watch.""Right," said Moriarty. "Are ye ready to go