Acton's Feud: A Public School Story

pected. "Briggs says that there is nothing broken, and that as soon as Aspinall gets over the shock he will be all right. The cut may leave a scar, but that will be about all. All t

rip, but there's no doubt whateve

w him, worse luck,

w anything

cally n

fancy he's going to lif

envy them the

at such a magnificent player

ch to our 'Socker' fixtures, and the Carthusians will ask us t

must not move one inch furth

t lik

d coram populo, old chap. Frightful bad form

Aspinall

than say a word more. Bet you he'll speak of it as an ac

ker shame than ever,"

d Hodgson had to knock him down before he could see that we put on the gloves here for a little healthy exercise, and the pleasure of

traction of the bea

ant o

s he,

, and consequently came here rather late. I know his head-piece Is all right, and I imagine his amiabi

is-how are we to settle this business as f

t's a tip for you when I'm gone. Besides, masters generally mishandle affair

never get his cap as long as I'm captain of the

that, but, all the same, it will make

is a back out

e across "seas of misunderstanding." I know Bourne saw the difficulties himself, and he left my study soon after with a rather anxious look on his face. Personally I determined not to think about the matter until I had seen Aspinall. From the very first I had never expected any help from

and as we walked towards the

has written me and said how sorry he was for

all, have you an

He was riled at a little hustling from Shannon's lot, and I ma

s across his cheek, and

out of the business, it isn't a small

. "'Twas a piece of sheer bad form. It

place would you bar him

nsidered a

ly let him know why he was not to have his cap-privately, of course. I shoul

ch, I believe, were foreign also; an etching of his own place up in Yorkshire; carpets, and rugs, and little statuettes-swagger through and through; a little too much so, I believe, for the rules, but Biffen evidently

han a little, but he solemnly took a chair, and in his blu

ord or two, Acton, ab

Corker calls "detached interest." "Aspin

bluntly, "neither Carr nor I

n? Every one else tho

now that you delibera

ittered viciously, though he

pectable second to you at 'footer,' I shall not give you your cap

ng it because a couple of fellows see something that a hundred others couldn't see, for the sufficient reason that there wasn't anything to see. I shall make no row about it; and, since you can dole out the caps to your own pet chums, and no one can stop you-do it!

u'd apologize to Aspinall

aid, his face looking beastly venomo

erbly disagreeable over this, take my word for it! But he won't get into the eleven, and I won't have a soul know tha