As regards your previous misconduct, I shall speak to you on that subject when I have decided what is to be done with your companions." For the Triple Alliance the remainder of the day passed in a whirl of conflicting emotions.

In a very short time the whole school knew exactly what had taken place in the doctor's study, and every boy was incensed at the underhanded meanness of this attempted attack on Oaks and Allingford.

It was a good thing for Thurston and Fletcher that they had their studies, and Noaks the housekeeper's room, in which to find shelter, or they would have been compelled to run the gauntlet.

Hawley and Gull, though not found guilty on this particular count, were hustled and abused for their former misdeeds, which it was perfectly evident would be remembered against them during the remainder of their life at Ronleigh.
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 many other expressions of approval.
At the close of this eventful day two things alone remained vividly impressed upon their minds.
The first was an interview with Allingford and Oaks in the former's study.
"Well," said the captain, "you kids have done us a good turn.