He drew back-- "My _turn_, what do you mean ?" "Why, you know as well as I do that we all write it out by turns." "Do you mean to say that Owen or Russell ever wrote it out ?" "Of course not; you wouldn't expect the saints to be guilty of such a thing, would you ?" "I'd rather not, Graham," he said, getting very red.
"Well, that _is_ cowardly," answered Graham, angrily; "then I suppose I must do it myself." "Here, I'll do it," said Eric suddenly; "shy us the paper." His conscience smote him bitterly.

In his silly dread of giving offence, he was doing what he heartily despised, and he felt most uncomfortable.
"There," he said, pushing the paper from him in a pet; "I've written it, and I'll have nothing more to do with it." Just as he finished they were called up, and Barker, taking the paper, succeeded in pinning it as usual on the front of the desk.

Eric had never seen it done so carelessly and clumsily before, and firmly believed, what was indeed a fact, that Barker had done it badly on purpose, in the hope that it might be discovered, and so Eric be got once more into a scrape.

He was in an agony of apprehension, and when put on, was totally unable to say a word of his Rep.

But low as he had fallen, he would not cheat like the rest; he kept his eyes resolutely turned away from the guilty paper, and even refused to repeat the words which were prompted in his ear by the boys on each side.