Young Wyndham's very steady now." "I must see Wyndham before I can decide," said the doctor, "but you have acted rightly in the matter--quite rightly." The captain went to find Wyndham, hoping for the best, but decidedly anxious.
That young gentleman was engaged in the agonies of Euclid when the school messenger entered, and announced that the doctor wanted to see him at once.

His face fell, and his heart beat fast as he heard the summons.

It needed not much effort to guess what it all meant.

Gilks and Silk had of course been up before the doctor, and the latter had carried out the threat of which Riddell had told him; and now he was summoned to hear his fate! At the schoolhouse door he found Riddell waiting for him.
"Oh, Riddell, I say!" exclaimed he, in tones of misery, "I've to go to the doctor at once.

Silk has told about me.