I can tell you Silk's a good deal more brickish to me than you are!" Poor Riddell! This, then, was the end of his hopes of winning over his old friend's brother.

The words struck him like a knife.

He would almost sooner break all the rules in the school, so he felt that moment, than drive this one boy to throw in his lot with fellows like Silk! "Wyndham!" he said, almost appealingly.
But Wyndham was gone, and the chance was lost.
The rest of that day passed miserably for the captain.

An ominous silence and order seemed to hang over morning school.

No further applicants molested him.