It was not to be a walk-over for the School, at any rate.

Indeed, it seemed doubtful whether from the last and toughest of these scrimmages the ball would ever emerge again to the light of day.
Suddenly, however; it become evident that the _status quo_ was about to give way, and that the fortunes of either side were going to take a new turn.

No one in the game, still less outside, could at first tell what had happened.

Then it occurred to Yorke and one or two others that Rollitt, who had hitherto been playing listlessly and sleepily, was waking up.

His head, high above his fellows, was seen violently agitated in the middle of the scrimmage, and presently it struggled forward till it came to where the ball lay.