[My Friend Smith by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookMy Friend Smith CHAPTER FOUR 12/20
"But I say, ain't you getting cold ?" I was not, I protested, and for a long time more we continued talking. Then at last the creaking of a board, or the noise of a mouse, startled us in earnest, and in a moment I had darted back to my bed.
All was quiet again. "Good-night, old boy," I whispered. "Good-night, old man.
Awfully good of you," he replied.
"I'll come to you to-morrow." And not long after we were both sound asleep. I managed to keep down my bad marks below four next day, so that I was able once more to take my walks abroad in the playground. It was with a little feeling of misgiving that I sallied forth, for Smith was at my side, reminding me of our resolution to escape, if only for a few minutes, to the free country outside.
I would greatly have preferred not trying it, but Smith was set on it, and I had not the face to leave him in the lurch. The far end of the playground, beyond the swings, broke into a patch of tangled thicket, beyond which again a little ditch separated the grounds of Stonebridge House from the country outside. To this thicket, therefore, we wandered, after "showing ourselves" on the swings for a few minutes, for the sake of allaying suspicions.
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