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At the commencement of the winter session it soon became evident that
seven weeks of summer holiday had not dispelled the cloud which had
overshadowed the close of the previous term. No sooner had the first
excitement of meeting and settling down subsided a little than the
question of Thurston's deposal cropped up ag... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
This simple action seemed the signal for a general agitation on
Thurston's behalf. His friends throughout the school openly proclaimed
their intention of voting for him, and exhorted others to do the same.
Almost to a man the Sixth and Remove sided with the captain, but Hawley
and Gull in the Fifth, Noaks and Mouler ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The greater number of the old "Happy Family" had now been removed into
the Lower Fourth, and this form in particular was rent with opposing
views, and shaken with continued outbursts of hostility between the
rival factions. The Triple Alliance were loyal to the old _regime_, and
were supported by "Rats," Carton, and ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
For two days, especially in the Lower School, the excitement continued
steadily to increase, and small boys being seized in out-of-the-way
corners were made to assert at one time that they would vote for
Thurston, and at another that they would vote for Parkes or Fielding,
and so, in order to escape with a whole skin,... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I know you looked altogether a different fellow
when you came back," returned Jack Vance: "I hardly knew you!"
There was a momentary pause in the discussion, and Bibbs, thinking this
a suitable opportunity for the delivery of his speech, stepped forward,
and took up his stand in the doorway. Hardly, however, had he
... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
What followed is too sad to be related in detail. Mr. Greyling
scattered largess in the shape of lines among the crowd, and the next
day the occupants of the two dormitories went about thirsting for each
other's blood.
On Saturday, just before morning school, the voting papers were
collected, and directly after dinne... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The words had hardly passed the speaker's lips when the whole room was
in an uproar. Cheers, howls, whistling, and the stamping of feet filled
the air with an indescribable din; members of the Lower Fourth fought
one another across the desks; and it was some minutes before Allingford
could obtain sufficient silence t... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"How many?"
"That," returned the captain, "is a question which, for certain reasons,
I think it would be best not to answer."
"I think," interrupted Gull, rising to his feet, amid a murmur of
excitement, "that we have a perfect right to insist on the figures being
made public; everything in connection with these elect... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"No; of course I shouldn't go alone," returned Fletcher. "I think it's
a matter that should be taken up by the whole school."
There was a moment's lull in the proceedings, broken only by a confused
murmur of voices; then Acton jumped to his feet. The football captain
was popular with everybody, and the sight of his ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The wave of excitement caused by the elections soon passed over.
The new prefects entered upon their duties, and in the performance of
the same apparently met with no ill-will or opposition; yet to every
keen observer it was evident that the recent contest had left behind it
a distinct under-current of dissatisfaction... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
In addition to the loss of Thurston, who, to do him justice, was a very
good forward, the school team was weakened still further by an
unfortunate accident which befell Rowlands, who twisted his ankle, and
was forced to leave the ground at the very commencement of the game.
The Town were unusually strong, and the bulk... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
_Chorus_: "Then put up your goal-posts, and mark," etc.
Too soon their rejoicings and empty their boast,
For the Town fellows very soon had them on toast;
And the bystanders sighed as they saw frequently
The ball pass the "back" of our ancient Ronleigh.
... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The Lower Fourth were straggling down the passage on the way to their
classroom, when they heard a scuffle and the clatter of falling books.
Grundy had seized Jack Vance by the collar from behind, and was screwing
his knuckle into his victim's neck.
"Yes; you called me a liar, didn't you?"
"So you are! Let go my coat... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
During the last hour of school, which happened to be devoted to algebra,
the only member of the Triple Alliance who seemed able to work was Jack
Vance. Diggory made a hash of nearly every sum, while Mugford simply
collapsed, and could not even remember that like signs made _plus_, and
unlike _minus_.
"I say, Diggy," ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
Ronleigh had no recognized duelling-ground, but when a premeditated
encounter did take place, the combatants usually resorted to a little
patch of grass situated between the back of the pavilion and the edge
of the adjoining field. Here it was possible to conduct an affair of
honour without much fear of interruption.... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
After this there was another short breathing-space; a thin stream of
blood was trickling from Grundy's nasal organ, while Diggory and Mugford
noticed with aching hearts that their comrade was beginning to look
rather limp, and was getting short of breath.
What would have been the ultimate result of the contest had it ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Well, what was the row about?"
"Oh, nothing."
"Nonsense; fellows don't fight for nothing. What was it? Any great
secret?"
"Oh no," answered Jack, laughing: "it began about that lot of verses
that was pinned upon the notice-board this morning. Grundy said
Thurston was turned out of the team, and I said he wasn't."
... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
Fletcher senior, a mean, double-faced fellow, continued, as the saying
goes, "to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds."
"It's an awful pity about old 'Thirsty,'" he would say to his brother
prefects. "I try to keep him a bit straight; but upon my word, if he
will go on being so friendly with such cads as Gull a... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
Grundy still continued to brag and swagger in the Lower Fourth, but his
attitude towards Jack Vance suddenly underwent a change. Towards the
latter he assumed quite a friendly bearing, and though still remaining a
stanch Thurstonian, refrained from making himself aggressively obnoxious
to the Triple Alliance. The ha... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Rats" hit on the idea of carrying in an old newspaper under his coat.
This he surreptitiously produced, and pretended to read as though it
belonged to the room. At a favourable moment, with an exclamation of,
"Well, this is a rotten paper!" he suddenly crunched the sheet up in his
hands and tore it into fifty pieces... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
At the back of the room was one of those short desks which can be
changed at will into a seat, the top part falling over and making a
back-rest, while the form remains stationary. In connection with
this article of furniture Gull one evening introduced a new pastime,
which he called putting fellows in the stocks, and... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
It soon became evident that the matter was not to be allowed to drop
without some show of feeling, for on the following morning the
unfortunate official was greeted with jeers and uncomplimentary remarks
wherever he went.
Just before tea Diggory and Jack Vance were crossing the quadrangle on
their way from the gymnasi... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Leave me alone, you blackguards; let go, I say!"
Jack and Diggory listened in amazement to the uproar with which they
suddenly found themselves surrounded, and not wishing to risk the chance
of having a form or a table upset on their toes, remained seated in
their corner, wondering how the affair would end.
At length... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The master on duty in the big schoolroom had to call several times for
silence before the subdued hum of muttered conversation entirely ceased.
Every one had heard of the reading-room riot, and was anxious to discuss
the matter with his companions.
"Who did it? who did it?" was the question asked on all sides.
"I don'... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
With one exception nobody stirred; a solitary small boy rose to his
feet, and in spite of the gravity of the situation a subdued titter ran
through the assembly. Apparently the whole of the row and disturbance
of the previous evening was the handiwork of one single boy, and that
boy the youthful "Rats."
"Well, Rathso... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
It was impossible to discover who really were the culprits, though the
majority of the boys put it down as having been done by "some of
'Thirsty's' lot," and as being a further proof of the latter's
well-known animosity towards Allingford, who had, of course, appointed
Lucas as keeper of the room.
"Look here!" said Di... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Because, you prize ass," retorted Diggory, with pardonable asperity,
"they didn't want it read."
"Then if they didn't want it read, why did they write it at all?"
exclaimed Mugford triumphantly.
"Oh, shut up! you're cracked, you--"
"Look here," interrupted Jack Vance, "where did you find the thing?"
"Why, you know th... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I can't think how it is," he continued, in his sing-song tone,
"I'm always losing my key. I've had two new ones already this term.
I always stick them in a place where I think they're sure not to get
lost, and then I forget where I put them. Thanks awfully."
"What a queer old codger Browse is!" remarked Diggory, as... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
While Diggory was holding forth in the big schoolroom on his methods of
reading a cipher, a conversation of a very different character, and on a
matter of grave importance, was taking place in the study of the school
captain.
Allingford and John Acton were seated in front of the former's little
fireplace talking over ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
In order to reach the laboratory, it was necessary to traverse the
box-room and the gymnasium, both of which were in darkness, the lights
being turned out by the prefect on duty when the boys assembled for
preparation.
Across the first of these chambers Browse groped his way in safety.
Hardly, however, had he crossed ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"They're gone," said Acton. "What shall we do?"
"We'll find one of them, at all events," replied his companion; and
returning once more to the neighbourhood of the studies, he shouted,--
"_Thurston!_"
There was a faint "Hullo!" and a moment later a door opened half-way
down the passage.
"Well, what d'you want?"
Allin... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I don't know. It may have been those fellows Gull and Hawley, but you
can't accuse them without some evidence; you see what I got just now for
tackling Thurston. Ever since the elections there seem to be a lot of
fellows bent on bringing the place to the dogs. Thurston's hand and
glove with the whole lot of them, ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Hullo!" said Diggory, "another rhyme?"
This time, however, the placard was in good plain prose, and ran as
follows:--
"NOTICE.
"A meeting of the whole school will take place
directly after dinner in the gymnasium. A full
attendance is urgently requested, as the... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I think you all know," began the captain, "the reason of this meeting
being called together. Last night Browse was set on in this room--in
the dark, mind you--knocked down, and drenched with cold water.
Some fellows may think it a good joke. I don't; I think the fellows who
did it were cads and cowards. I reported... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Well, I can't swear," answered Browse readily. "I couldn't see,
because it was dark, and my spectacles were knocked off; but I'm pretty
certain it was some of Thurston's lot--Gull, or Hawley, or some of those
fellows. They did it because I complained when they kicked up a row and
interfered with my work."
This repl... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The speech had just the effect which Thurston intended it should have.
The English schoolboy has always been a zealous champion of "fair play,"
though sometimes misled in his ideas as to what the term really implies.
A vague sense that the prefects were at fault, and that this inquiry was
a blind to cover their shortc... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I can't understand," he began, "why you should have this unkind feeling
towards me. I can only repeat, in spite of what you say, that I _am_
your friend."
"Very well," returned the other, with an angry flash in his eyes, "as it
was partly an attack on myself, I had meant to have said nothing about
it; but since you ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Hullo, old chap!" said Thurston, entering his friend's study a few
moments later; "you made rather a mess of that speech of yours.
I'm inclined to think you've damaged your reputation."
"I don't care," returned the other; "we're both leaving at the end of
this term. As for Allingford, just let him look out: it'll be... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
Diggory paused as though to see what effect this announcement would have
on the faces of his friends.
"Well!" they exclaimed; "go on!"
"Why, then, I saw in a moment what they'd done: _they'd simply
transposed the whole alphabet_--A. was Z, and Z was A!"
"Oh!" cried Jack Vance; "I see it now."
"Of course, it was as pla... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
Afternoon school was just over, and the three friends were standing
warming their feet on a hot-water pipe, discussing the likelihood of
making any other discoveries which might tend to throw more light on the
subject, when suddenly a happy thought entered the head of Jack Vance.
"Look here, Diggory. You said you fou... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"If they catch you prying about, and find out that you've been watching
them, you'll get an awful licking."
"I don't care if I do; I mean to go."
"Well, we'll go with you," said Jack Vance. "Remember it's the Triple
Alliance, and we vowed always to stand by each other whatever happened."
"Yes," answered Diggory, "and... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"There don't seem to be any one about," continued Noaks, peering into
the corners; "yet it's rum there should be such a smell of fusees."
"I expect it was the man," said Thurston, producing a candle-end, and
sticking it in an empty ginger-beer bottle which lay on the ground.
"He was in here this afternoon after some o... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Oh, simply enough," answered Hawley. "Noaks and Mouler and Gull and I
did the trick; young Grundy's was the voice that told Browse to go down
to the 'lab.' Grundy hung about at the top of the stairs, and as soon
as he saw Browse come back and make for Allingford's study, he let us
know the coast was clear, so we un... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Nothing at present," answered the other. "We must wait until this
affair's blown over. There's no need to run the risk of getting
expelled; and, besides, we want some time to think of a plan."
The faint _clang, ter-ang_ of a bell sounded across the playing field.
Noaks and Hawley rose to their feet.
"'Prep!'" excla... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The two boys ran quickly across to the big schoolroom, and entered just
in time to take their seats before the master on duty called, "Silence!"
As might have been expected, none of the Triple Alliance put in an
appearance at supper that evening; as a matter of fact, they were
congregated in a quiet corner of the box-... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The after results of this chapter of accidents cause it to assume an
additional importance as being the "beginning of the end," alike of this
narrative and of an eventful period in the history of Ronleigh College.
The reader will understand, therefore, that in turning our attention for
a short time to an account of th... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"You'll have to go as far as Chatton now," said Carton. "Never mind; you
can get back by the next train."
"Yes; but the question is if we've got any money," answered Jack Vance
ruefully. "It's fourpence the single journey, so the fare there and
back for three of us'll be two bob. Here's threepence; that's all the
ti... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Well, we'd better walk along the road as far as that curve," said
Diggory, "and then they won't see us from the station."
The trio started off in the direction indicated, hurrying along the
permanent way, hopping over the sleepers, and seeing how far they could
run on one of the metals without falling off. At length... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Yes," added Mugford; "but there might be a luggage, or one coming the
other way."
"Well, all you'd have to do would be to cross over on to the other
line."
Imperceptibly the boys quickened their pace until it became almost a
trot.
"Hurrah!" cried Diggory, a few moments later, as a far-distant
semicircle of daylight c... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I say, you fellows," cried Diggory, as they emerged into the fresh air,
"I wouldn't go through there again for something."
"It was a good thing you gave me that shove," said Mugford; "I felt as
though I couldn't move. And we were standing on the very line it went
over."
"Yes: I couldn't remember for the moment which... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
His pursuer was gaining on him rapidly, and it was in vain that his two
friends (too loyal to make good their escape alone) stood, and with
frantic gestures urged him to quicker movement. Just, however, as the
capture seemed certain, a great piece of loose earth giving way beneath
the man's weight caused the latter t... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Bun for it!" panted Mugford; "don't wait for me!"
"Shan't!" said Jack and Diggory in one voice; and the latter, sticking
his hands in his trouser pockets, began to whistle.
"Go on!" cried Mugford.
"Shan't!" repeated his companions.
It was evident that the Triple Alliance would sink or swim together, and
it so happene... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
Exceptions, however, prove the rule; and when at the commencement of the
present winter term a new junior master had come to take charge of the
Third Form, it was evident from the first that before long there would
be trouble. Mr. Grice was a very short man, with a pompous, hectoring
manner, which was, somehow, espec... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Hullo, you kids! where have you been?" inquired the captain.
Diggory launched out into a brief description of their many adventures;
Oaks laughed heartily. "Well," he said, pulling out his watch, "you've
just got back in time; half a minute more, and you'd have been outside,
my boys."
The prefect locked the door, an... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I merely said, sir, that we work by the school clock."
"And I say, hold your tongue, sir.--Oaks, remember you report those
three boys for being late."
"I can't do that, sir," answered Oaks stolidly, "for they were in time."
Mr. Grice boiled over. "You are a very impertinent fellow," he cried.
"I shall report you bot... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The near approach of the Wraxby football match caused a revival of good,
honest public spirit. If only Ronleigh could beat the Grammar School
this year at footer as well as at cricket, every one felt that their cup
of joy would run over, and the champions who were to strive for the
wished-for victory were naturally r... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The sentence not being completed, the two other boys glanced at the
speaker's face, and from previous indications in the tone of his voice
were not surprised to find that he was crying. Two years appear a long
time when one is on the bright side of twenty, and the friendship seemed
to have lasted for ages. At the ne... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"What are you doing that for?"
"Why, because they may miss it, and smell a rat. Come on; let's get the
key and see what it means."
In this instance the translation of the cryptograph did not occupy much
time; Diggory produced his double alphabet, and soon spelt out the
word:--
"_To-night._"
The two chums gazed at eac... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Well," cried his two chums, in low, eager tones, "what have you heard?"
The answer was certainly one they had least expected,--
"Nothing."
"Nothing! what d'you mean?"
"Why, they didn't come; there wasn't any meeting. I waited and waited,
until I saw it was no use staying any longer; so then I gave it up as a
bad job... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
In one way it was a fortunate thing for Diggory that he did not discover
the note sooner, for hardly had Thurston set the lighted candle in the
empty bottle than Noaks picked it up, and peered carefully into each of
the four corners, and behind the heaps of benches and other lumber.
"What are you doing that for?" aske... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"You seem to have got your back up, old chap," said Thurston, referring
to the bitter tones in which the last few sentences had been spoken;
"but out with it--what's your plan?"
"Why, this: I'd no idea what a chance we should have when I stuck that
note in our pillar-box, but here it is all ready made. Allingford and... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I only just thought of one on the spur of the moment," answered
Fletcher; "but if no one else has a better to suggest, I daresay it'll
do. We might screw up little Grice's bedroom door so as to get him
down late in the morning; his room's right away at the end of the
passage. There is a screw-driver belonging to Oa... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Have you got the screws?"
"Yes," answered Noaks, producing a twist of paper from his pocket.
"Don't you think I'd better go and keep _cave_ at the top of the
stairs?" whispered Fletcher.
"No," returned Thurston; "Noaks can do that. I'll make the two holes,
and you must put the screws in; you're the best carpenter of... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
This conversation took place in the quadrangle. Travers, the Third Form
boy, rushed off to impart his information to other hearers, and the
three chums passed on through the archway, and came to a stand-still in
a quiet corner of the paved playground.
"Well," asked Diggory, "who did it?"
"Who d'you think it was?" ret... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"If Noaks finds we've split, he'll send that knife to the police," said
Mugford.
"I don't care a straw what Noaks does," answered Diggory boldly.
"You fellows needn't have anything to do with it; I'll go and tell Dr.
Denson myself."
"No; I'll come too," said Jack.
"So'll I," added Mugford; and off they started. It wa... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The captain was about to speak, but Dr. Denson held up his hand.
"As I said before," he continued, "I am sorry, Allingford, even to
appear to doubt your word; I have always had reason to rely with
confidence upon the integrity and honour of my prefects, and believe
me, this interview is to me an exceedingly painful on... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"What!" exclaimed the head-master, taking the scrap of paper, and
glancing alternately from the mystic word to the boy's face--"what on
earth is this? Explain yourself."
It would be unnecessary to attempt a verbatim report of Diggory's
evidence; in doing so we should but be repeating facts with which the
reader is al... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
There was a silence. Diggory glanced up, and received a look from the
two prefects that amply repaid him for the trying ordeal through which
he had just passed. Jack Vance leaned over to whisper something in his
ear, when their attention was attracted by an exclamation of surprise
from Dr. Denson.
"Aha! what does th... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Don't lie to me, sir," interrupted the doctor sternly. "You know very
well what it means; it's of your own invention."
Thurston saw clearly that the game was up, and with the recklessness of
despair decided at once to accept the inevitable.
"I screwed up Mr. Grice's door," he said sullenly.
"And who assisted you?"
To... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
As for Diggory and his two chums, never were three small boys made so
much of before. "What was the cipher?"--"How did they find it out?"--
these and a hundred other questions were continually being dinned in
their ears, coupled with slaps on the back, ejaculations of "Well
done!"--"You're a precious sharp lot!" and ... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"I don't care!" exclaimed Jack Vance, with forced bravado; "he can't
prove we stole the coins."
"Of course he can't," sighed Mugford; "but if there's a row it'll rather
spoil our Christmas."
CHAPTER XXII.
WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN?
The Wraxby match was played and won. Allingford and his men journeyed
to the nei... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
The Triple Alliance, however, had cause to feel uneasy when they heard
of this latest escapade of their ancient enemy.
"He's got my knife with him," said Mugford; "he may go any day and try
for that reward."
For the time being, however, no communication was received from the
police-station at Todderton, and none of th... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"None of the fellows'll come near it," said Jack Vance; "and if old
Watford should be knocking round and catch us there, he won't do
anything to-day; we shall have to clear out, that's all."
Accordingly, about a quarter to four, the three friends, with their
solitary guest, assembled at the trysting-place. Jack Vance... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"Yes," answered Diggory; "it was just after we'd been frightened by the
ghost. D'you remember the 'Main-top' and the 'House of Lords' and the
Philistines? I wonder what's become of them all?"
One reminiscence suggested another, and after exhausting their
recollections of The Birches, they recalled their varied exper... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"You've always been very kind to me," he began, speaking rather quickly.
"No, we haven't," interrupted Jack Vance.
"Yes, you have. Just shut up; I'm going to say what I like. You made
friends with me because I happened to be in the same room at The
Birches; but you always stuck to me, and helped me along a lot when... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
"My word," he exclaimed, "it's time we thought about packing!"
"Wait a jiff for those letters," answered Diggory.
A moment later "Rats" came scampering down the passage. "Here they
are," he cried; "I'm very sorry I forgot 'em. A letter for Mugford, and
a paper for Vance."
Diggory relighted the gas-jet which he had t... | The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs | Avery, Harold | 1867 | 1943 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Schools -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10027 | |
SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY
BASEBALL GUIDE
1913
EDITED BY
JOHN B. FOSTER
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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY
SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE
Thirty-seventh Year
1913
EDITED BY
JOHN B. FOSTER
AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY
21 Warren Street, New York
CONTENTS
A Remarkable Base Ball Tournament
A World's Series Problem
American League Averages, Official
American League Season of 19... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
The Spalding Base Ball Hall of Fame
The World's Series of 1912
The Umpires
NOTICE--To give adequate representation to College and School Base Ball
Teams, which heretofore has not been possible in the Guide owing to lack
of room, "Spalding's Official Collegiate Base Ball Annual" will be
issued in February. It will cont... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
Some innovations have been attempted in this number of the GUIDE which
should interest Base Ball readers. Attention is called to the symposium
by prominent Base Ball writers which brings up a subject of interest in
regard to future world's series. There are other special articles,
including something about the Base Ba... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call
attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped Base
Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team for the
international championship. It is not probable that such a series will
take place within the next five years, but... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
So it would appear that the introduction of the national game of the
United States into China is likely to exert a humanizing influence which
shall go further than legislation or sword, and if only the missionaries
had grasped earlier the wishes and the tendency of the younger element
of the Chinese population, the co... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small assistance to the
athletes of the United States in helping them to win premier honors at
the Olympic Games since their reintroduction. Mr. Spalding was the first
American Commissioner to the Olympic Games appointed to that post, the
honor being conferred upon him ... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
"The question, 'When should the training of a child begin?' has been
wisely answered by the statement that it should antedate his birth. The
training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, but it approaches
the time as nearly as practicable, for America starts training of future
Olympian winners very early in li... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
Now not a penny has been appropriated thus far for the salaries of the
president of the National League, the secretary and expenditures of the
office nor for the salaries of the business departments of the various
clubs, nor for ground rents, taxes and a dozen and one other things, to
say nothing of that well-known ol... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
There is no organization, either of unscrupulous Base Ball players or
unscrupulous club owners, which will ever find it possible to destroy
organized Base Ball. The results that organized Base Ball have brought
about will never be annihilated although grave injury could be
temporarily wrought by a force defiant to tie... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of lofty
ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over trivial
differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the exercise of a
little common sense.
* * * * *
BASE BALL PLAYED IN SWEDEN
In connection with the subject... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
The Olympic Committee, Stockholm, then received a letter from the
Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball could be
arranged for during the Olympian Games, they would bring two teams along
on the Finland. The Olympic Committee cabled to come along, and sent us
a copy of Mr. Sullivan's letter. I ... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
Our club has been practicing all summer, twice a week, and on the 24th
of August we gave an exhibition game here at Westeras, between two teams
from our club, the suits made for the Olympic Games coming in very
handy. I send you herewith a clipping from a local paper describing the
game, and also a picture of the two ... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
No club owner, unless he is maliciously or foolishly inclined, will
jeopardize the interests of his team by acting in a wilfully unjust
manner toward a player who is cheerfully and uprightly offering his
services. We may hear of occasional exceptions to this condition of
things, but if these occasional exceptions chan... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
To the contrary, every consideration has been shown to the player, but
the latter must not confound with the consideration shown to him the
idea that his interests are the only interests at stake in Base Ball.
The man who is willing to furnish the sinews of war has as good standing
in court as the player who furnishes... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
Realizing that such players were not given a chance to advance in the
Base Ball profession, this matter was thoroughly thrashed out and the
new ruling under which all of the National Agreement clubs operate was
adopted. Now it is possible for a player in any of the smaller leagues
to be drafted by a major league club,... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 | ||||
1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American League Club
has title.
2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or National
League Club has title to this player and how secured.
* * * * *
A WORLD'S SERIES PROBLEM
Much discussion arose after the finish of t... | Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 | ['en'] | 15 | {'Baseball'} | PG10028 |
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