I caught him coming home one night late, long after call-over.

I ought to have reported him for it, but I thought I'd tell you first.

It's a pity for him, for he's not a bad fellow." "I'd give anything to get him away from Silk!" said Riddell.

"It seems a sort of infatuation with him, for he knows well enough Silk means him no good, and yet he's thick with him.

And now I expect he'll cut me altogether since I refused him a permit to the town this afternoon." "He's gone down all the same," said Fairbairn.
"Yes, and not alone either," replied Riddell.
"Hullo!" exclaimed Fairbairn just then, as a sudden sound broke the unwonted stillness of the deserted school, "that sounds like some of the fellows coming back." He was right.