"I wonder what it is ?" "Looks like a row of some sort," said Langrish.

"What are all the chaps going across to the gym.

for, I wonder ?" "Let's go and see," said Coxhead.
"We needn't all go together," said Warminster, significantly.

So one by one, casually, and at studied distances from our comrades, the Philosophers dropped into the crowd and made for the scene of last night's accident.
I felt terribly nervous.

Suppose some one had been killed, or suppose the gymnasium had been burnt, and suspicion fell on any one, what a fix it would be! In my distress I met Dicky Brown, full of news.
"Hullo, Jones, I say, have you heard?
Some chap's been trying to blow up the gym.