"Save me! Save me! _It is under my foot! It is moving ...

moving ...

moving out_," and clung the tighter.
The good Doctor also moved with alacrity--but saw no snake.

He was exceedingly perturbed, between a hypothetical snake and an all too actual lunatic boy.
Fortunately, "Stout" (so called because he was Porter), passing the big doors without, was attracted by the screams.
Entering, he hastened to the side of the agitated Head, and, with some difficulty, untied from that gentleman's leg, a small boy--but not until the small boy had fainted....
When Dam regained consciousness he had a fit, recovered, and found himself in the Head's study, and the object of the interested regard of the Head, Messrs.

Colfe and Steynker, the school medico, and the porter.
It was agreed (while the boy fought for his sanity, bit his hand for the reassuring pleasure of physical pain, and prayed for help to the God in whom he had no reason to believe) that the case was "very unusual, very curious, v-e-r-y interesting indeed".