I say, do come with me." "Silk hasn't told about you at all," said the captain; "I've reported you myself." "You!" cried Wyndham, in tones of mingled amazement and reproach; "oh, why ?" "Wouldn't you sooner have had me do it than Silk ?" asked Riddell.
The boy saw his meaning at once, and as usual flew from one extreme to the other.
"Oh, of course! What a brute I was not to see it.

Thanks awfully, old man.

What awful grief I should have come to if it hadn't been for you!" "I don't know at all what view the doctor takes of the matter," said the captain, gravely; "you had better not expect too much." Wyndham groaned.
"If only I'm not expelled!" said he.

"I suppose you can't come too ?" "No.

The doctor wants to see you alone, I think." "Well, here goes.