as a tap at the chamber door, and Jerry went to open it.

"Please tell master that the London doctor has come in from the hotel
and wants to see him directly."

"Ah, yes," said the tutor, who had heard every word; "I thought he would
come early. Go on to the station, Brigley; tell them poor Sir Richard
must be found. I'll go down to see the doctor."

Each departed upon his mission, and half an hour after the London
surgeon took his departure, confirming his colleague's opinion that a
great change for the better had taken place in Mark Frayne.

"Youth, my dear sir--youth! He has rallied wonderfully, and I feel that
we may hope."

"But you will stop for the day?" said Mr Draycott, anxiously.

"There is not the slightest need, my dear sir. My colleague yonder
will, unless something very unforeseen happens, pull him through."

"But if anything unforeseen does happen?" said Mr Draycott, nervously.

"Then telegraph to me, and I will come down at once. But I don't think
you need fear, Mr Draycott, and I congratulate you upon the happy turn
things have taken. Good-morning. I shall hurry off to catch an early
train."

"Congratulate me upon the happy turn things have taken!" groaned the
tutor, wiping his moist face. "Poor boy! poor boy! I ought to have
seen him again. It was more than the high-spirited lad could bear."

"Yes, sir; that's it."

"You back, Brigley? Was I thinking aloud?"

"Yes, sir; and I heard every word."

"But the police?"

"They were off at once, sir. They're going to hire a big boat and try
and find him; but the inspector shook his head. He says he thinks it
means being washed away to sea."

That was a sad day at the tutor's, Richard Frayne's yellow-pupils going
to and fro in the silent house talking of the cousins, and canvassing
Richard Frayne's act from different points of view.

The news soon spread, too, in the town; for the setting-off of the
police with a couple of stout boatmen and the drags was enough to set
the place in a ferment.

There were plenty there, too, ready to talk of the position, as
everything leaked out by degrees, and formed an exciting topic to add to
that of the previous day, during which some hundreds had flocked down to
the ruins to see the spot where the two pupils had fought and one had
been killed--so it was firmly believed. Now the journeys were in the
other direction--down the flooded river--but here the remains of the
bridge and the spot wher