'I feared it would continue when we started.

The magnificent sport you speak of must rest for to-day.' The other looked at his watch, but made no particular reply.
'Come, let us move on.

I don't like intruding into other people's grounds like this,' De Stancy continued.
'We are not intruding.

Anybody walks outside this fence.' He indicated an iron railing newly tarred, dividing the wilder underwood amid which they stood from the inner and well-kept parts of the shrubbery, and against which the back of the gymnasium was built.
Light footsteps upon a gravel walk could be heard on the other side of the fence, and a trio of cloaked and umbrella-screened figures were for a moment discernible.

They vanished behind the gymnasium; and again nothing resounded but the river murmurs and the clock-like drippings of the leafage.
'Hush!' said Dare.
'No pranks, my boy,' said De Stancy suspiciously.