The King of the School, or, Who will Win? — page 27: what you’re looking at

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THE KING OF THE SCHOOL; OR, WHO WILL WIN? 21 | thought Frank to himself, but then neither he nor the other pupils of Lexi- con College knew that Baynes had been guilty of prevarication when questioned as to the fight. Two days after the combat, Baynes wrote the following note to his friend Captain Robinson—of the black-guards said Pembridge. a He did not tell any one of his friends, not even the renowned Crawley, what he was writing about; but we, using the author’s power of seeing farther through a brick wall than other people, shall take the liberty of peeping through | the envelope and reading it. It was worded thus :— “ DEAR ROBINSON,—Since I saw you the other day I have had a tremendous mill with one of our fellows, and, you will be sorry to hear, got the worst of it I cannot leave my bed for a week, so that you see it will be quite impossible for me to do anything towards Monday night’sadventure. But don’t bealarmed, old fellow; put off the affair for a week or two, and I will find some means of paying you the £20. “ Yours faithfully, ‘ HILTON BAYNES.” Captain Robinson swore when he received the note, and vowed that he would not be baulked by a boy, and that Monday night would find him— Baynes knew where! QRS’ CHAPTER V. “HARRY, THE HEIR OF A NOBLE HOUSE.” It is tine now that we should enlighten our readers as to the doings of the boy whose appearance at the station was the cause of the fight between Baynes and Egerton. After being rescued a second time from his tormentors, “ Harry, the Heir of a Noble House,” as young Webber called him, hunted about, and with a little trouble managed to find, a decent and cheap lodging, which he immedi- ately took possession of, and enjoyed such a niglit’s sleep as he had not known for many months. The next day—that is, the day of the great fight—he entered upon his duties; gathering green food for Webber's rabbits, looking after Marsham’s dogs, and grooming the Earl of Pembridge’s horse. The work suited him admirably, and so kindly was he treated by his young masters, that he blessed the day he. was tempted to go into the railway station to try to beg a penny. Things went on very pleasantly till he had been in the good old town of Ballsbury a week. On that day—which, of course, was the Monday of which Captain Robinson had spoken so impressively—he was, by Marsham’s instructions, taking the two terriers (which were kept at the “ Six Bells”) out for exercise. He walked till he reached a wood at the top of the hill above the old chalk- it. . Suddenly Pincher and Billy bolted into the underwood, most probably in pursuit of a rabbit. Harry called and whistled in vain, they would not return to him, nor had he any very definite idea which way they had gone. Not knowing much about such matters, it struck Harry that it would Go NOC EO mn