That Scholarship Boy

onour of

d Mr. Morrison, on the day when the boys thou

for he intended to support Taylor, and at least do part of the cheering on his side; and the collapse of the whole affair annoyed him,

rday, and he told me he had forbidden his son to engage in a fight, either no

nd I wondered whether he was right. So Warren junior refused to fight, did he?' said Mr. M

stly mean of him, and he funked it

isn't the only plucky thing Warren has done. H

her?' asked Leonard, w

st new move, I hear, at Torrington's. To sw

right enough; but w

't you know about it-haven'

am trying to keep up the honour of Torrington's-keep it from going to the

s a Torrington boy in my time, a

scholarship boy there for?' burst out Leonar

onard!' chid

ut it is what the fellows are

l chose to send one of the most promising of their schol

take him away at once. Don't you see the honour of the sc

y's angry flow of words. 'We won't discuss

ys discussing it,'

. 'But now tell me what you mean by the honour o

ch, of course, is intended for poo

hose who are better off. From Dr. Mason's report to the Council, this lad has given every satisfaction while he has been at the school, and I h

school, and-and--' he stopped, dimly conscious that in his anger he had already said too much. Mr. Morrison w

and found his sister sitting in her usual place. 'Mother wish

uch a duffer,' he added, 'and I shal

t's in a name after all? It's what you are, not what name you are called by. I sa

ll him, for if there is one thing he hates it is swat! He says

sure you ought to know that father is wiser than

u're just as much of a duffer as ev

m the "cock of the walk?" I met him at a party last w

girl, and don't know anythin

was quite rude to his mother. He is no gentleman, and so he has no right to find fa

n what had been said about this swatting club-whether she had heard it spoken of before t

olarship boy; he was telling mo

re are in it; it's no good going to Taylor with half a tale. Won't he be mad, when he hears of this last move! Warren is forbidden

you think that?

dead for a minute or two, and never turned up at school all the next day. What la

ou about it; but, of course, he never thought you were going to peach to th

so of course you don't like him, for I've noticed lately that if

day she hoped you would not grow up like somebody she knew. I did not hear his name, but sh

ow up all right, never fear. What I want to know is who are in the swatting

join them, and I don't believe you mean to do

swatting club when he went to

t begin my lessons; I have done them better lately, my governess sa

six months' work. That game don't pay excep

emselves so clever. Now don't hinder me, but get on with

rother, while Florence propped her head on her hands and stare

ay at school, but he has bitterly repented it since. Perhaps you had better take your books up to your own room, dear,' she said, turnin

er had heard concerning one portion of the school; that it was becoming almost lawless in its determination not to learn more than the masters could force upon them. 'He told you too that

oke in admiration of these lads. 'They're just

ibly can. We do all we can to help you, and Florence is quite willing to come back and do her lessons here, if you do not hinder her. Now will you promise me,

ungraciously, 'but I don't see why father shoul

ady set of lads, and you are easily

e I done?' angrily

ith the way things have been going on at school lately. You know the last report was far from satisfactory, and your father sai

hat she had said enough for once, rose and left the room. She hoped that Leonard would think

brother whom her son so strangely resembled; and she prayed that God would save her boy f

dy who has got himself into a nice scrape, and been obliged to leave England. It was a nice thing to be told I was like this scapegrace,' he muttered. But, in spite of his anger, he did manage to learn something of his

of sneaks in the school who have set up a swat

r has heard of it, an

t, Morrison!' excl

n't it enough to be worried by the masters? No

ws as much as most. He has made his pile; means I shall be a gentleman, and that is all he cares for. Lessons be blowed! They're all very well for scholars

is father blamed, and so he walked along in silence, while Taylor

who had carefully studied their subjects and the rest of the class. Warren, Howard, and seven or eight other lads held

the playground after dinner. 'That scholarship boy is at

hat before,' g

e job for us, as he brought him in; but it don't seem as though he was goin

ou going to do?

ve got to do is what I tell y

yes and looked at Taylor w

it to be?

im out; it will all be d

oratory by a close wooden partition with several ventilating shafts, under which noisome-smelling ch

slops. I'll let Skeats know whether he shall favour a

of the lads; for the science master w

e lets him go up to the "lab." every dinner-time to work at it. Don't you see the little game? We can't make him feel he is in Coventry, if he is taken out of our way. But I

Leonard, turning pale, and hearti

e want. Your father is a doctor

ot keep a store of ch

was a doctor, and I suppose

t what I shall tell you, and if the people at the drug store ask you whether it is for your father, why, of course you must say, "Yes." Now mind, mum must be the word, for I'm not going to tell all the crowd what I'm going to do. Curtis is going to find half the money, and I'll find the other half.

ked Leonard, wishing he could

n a masterful tone. 'Now, mind you don't lose the