You could wreck the School in a week if you chose; and it is in your hands to pull it together more than any of us masters, however much we should like to do it.

And you'll do it, old fellow!" And so they turned up the lane that led round to the back of the mountain.
The news that Mr Stratton and the captain had gone up Hawk's Pike to look for Rollitt soon spread through Fellsgarth that morning.

The souls of our friends the juniors were seriously stirred by it.
Their promise--or shall we say threat ?--to organise a search-party up the mountain on their own account had been lost sight of somewhat in the exciting distractions of the last twenty-four hours; but now that they found the ground cut from under their feet they were very indignant.
Secretly, no doubt, they were a little relieved to find that they had been forestalled in the perilous venture of a winter ascent of the formidable pike they had such good cause to remember.
It was a mean trick of Yorke's to "chowse" them out of the credit, they protested.

Now he would get all the glory, and they would get none.
"I tell you what," said Percy.

"It's my notion Rollitt's not gone up the mountain at all.