CHAPTER SIX.
HOW THINGS CAME TO A CRISIS AT STONEBRIDGE HOUSE.
A year passed, and found us at the end of it the same wretched, spiritless boys as ever.

Stonebridge House had become no more tolerable, the Henniker had grown no less terrible, and our fellow "backward and troublesome boys" were just as unpleasant as they had been.

No new boys had come to give us a variety, and no old boys had left.

Except for the one fact that we were all of us a year older, everything was precisely the same as it had been at the time of the adventure related in my last chapter.

But that one year makes a good deal of difference.