And an empty box on end in the window convinced them he had sat down during part of his residence.
There was also a leaf of exercise paper and a Horace lying on the floor, which evidently had not been brought there by the owls.

Altogether, as they looked round, they concluded that, but for the cold, he might have had worse quarters during his temporary exile.
But the discovery that delighted them most was a fragment of a newspaper in which were wrapped the not yet exhausted end of a ham, and half a biscuit! Over these relics they dwelt with quite an affectionate interest, till somebody said-- "What did he have to drink?
He didn't take any of our ginger-beer, and there's no water here." "Why, you duffer, of course he could get out any time he liked.

It's only a latch on the door; any one can open it from inside.

He could easily get down to the river in the night, and have a tub, and fetch up some water." They decided that in future the shop committee, except when Mr and Mrs Stratton were present, should meet nowhere but in "Rollitt's chamber," as they forthwith named the room, and proceeded to dedicate it to that use there and then.
"Do you know," said Wally, "that after we pay back Mr Stratton what he lent us to start with, there'll be a clear L5 to give to the clubs out of the profits ?" "Not bad," said Percy.

"They ought to put us in the first fifteen for that." "Never mind," said D'Arcy; "they've got a jolly hot fifteen for Saturday, Rollitt and all of 'em.