Haven't you seen it ?" asked Parson.
"He's in a funk about something or other," said Telson.
It was getting near now! "What about, do you know ?" asked the captain.
"Why, you know," said Telson.

"About being expelled, you know." "Expelled! What for ?" asked Riddell; and the boy's reply gave him a satisfaction quite out of proportion to its merits.
"About Beamish's, you know," said Telson, confidentially; "he thinks you're going to report him." "And he's bound to get expelled if you do," said Parson.
"And how do you know about it ?" asked the captain, quietly.
"Oh! you know, Parson and I spotted them--that is, Gilks and Silk and him--that night of Brown's party.

But we never told anybody, and don't mean to, so I don't know how it came out." "Anyhow," said Parson, "if he's to be expelled, Silk and Gilks ought to catch it too.

I bet anything they took him there.

Thanks! a little piece." This last sentence was in reply to an invitation to take some more cake.
Under cover of this diversion, Riddell, with thankful heart, continued to steer the talk out again into the main channel of school affairs, of which the affair of Wyndham junior was but one of many.
Before the meal was over it had got as far Eutropius, and he fairly won his guests' hearts by announcing that he did not consider that historian's Latin nearly as good as Caesar's, an opinion which they endorsed with considerable heat.
All good things come to an end at last, and so did this breakfast, the end of which found the boys in as great good-humour as at the beginning.
They thanked the captain most profusely for his hospitality, which they never doubted was meant as a recognition of their own sterling merits, and of the few attempts they had lately made to behave themselves; and, after inviting him to come to a concert they were about to give on the evening of the juniors' match, took their departure.
"By the way," said Riddell, as they were going, "do either of you know to whom this book belongs?
I found it in the playground yesterday." A merry laugh greeted the appearance of Bosher's diary, which the pair recognised as a very old friend.
"It's old Bosher's diary," said Telson.