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"False-hearted, dishonorable boys," he exclaimed,
"henceforth my treatment of you shall be very different. The whole form,
except Russell and Owen, shall have an extra lesson every half-holiday;
not one of the rest of you will I trust again. I took you for gentlemen.
I was mistaken. Go." And so saying, he waved them to their seats with
imperious disdain.
They went, looking sheepish, and ashamed. Eric, deeply vexed, kept
twisting and untwisting a bit of paper, without raising his eyes, and
even Barker thoroughly repented his short-sighted treachery; the rest
were silent and miserable.
At twelve o'clock two boys lingered in the room to speak to Mr. Gordon;
they were Eric Williams and Edwin Russell, but they were full of very
different feelings.
Eric stepped to the desk first. Mr. Gordon looked up.
"You! Williams, I wonder that you have the audacity to speak to me.
Go--I have nothing to say to you!"
"But, sir, I want to tell you that--"
"Your guilt is only too clear, Williams. You will hear more of this.


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