He gave them to understand that his mission had failed, and that henceforth he would have nothing to say to Sawyer that he could help, and that was all.

He entered into no particulars, but there are occasions on which silence says more than words, and from this time no voice was ever raised in the junior master's defence--throughout the school he was never referred to except as 'the cad,' or 'that cad Sawyer.' "And alone in his own room, Mr.Sawyer, sorrowful but unresentful still, was making up his mind that his efforts had been all in vain.

'I must give it up,' he said.

'And both for myself and the boys the sooner the better, before there is any overt disrespect which would _have_ to be noticed.

It is no use fighting on, I have not the knack of it.