e names
of those two fellows. But he's gated me till the end of the term! I
may only go out for the half-hour after first school, and half an hour
after half-past five. And you know what that means," he added, with a
groan.

"What?" asked Riddell, too rejoiced that his friend was safe to be over-
curious as to the exact consequence of his sentence.

"Why!" exclaimed Wyndham, "it's all up with the second-eleven!"

It was a blow undoubtedly--perhaps the next hardest blow to expulsion--
but so much less hard that not even the boy himself could for long
regard it as a crushing infliction.

He had had his lesson, and after the suspense of the last few weeks he
was ready to expiate his transgression manfully, if sorrowfully.

"Anyhow," said he, after pouring out all his disappointment into the
captain's sympathetic ear, "it's not as bad as being sent off home. And
if it hadn't been for you that's what might have happened. I say, and
think of my brother coming down to umpire, too! What a fool I shall
look! Never mind; it can't be helped. I'm sure to get into the eleven
next season. I say, by the way, I've no right to be standing out here.
I shall have to go in."

And so ended the story of young Wyndham's transgressions.

Riddell had to officiate at yet one more investigation that eventful
day.

Scarcely had Wyndham disappeared when a message reached him that the
doctor wished to see him again.

With no doubt this time as to the purport of the summons, he obeyed.

He found Gilks standing in the doctor's presence, where Silk had stood
an hour or so earlier.

"Riddell," said the doctor, whose face was grave, and whose voice was
more than unusually solemn, "Gilks here has just been making a very
serious statement about an accident that happened early in the term--the
breaking of the line at the boat-race, which he confesses was his doing.
I wish you to hear it."

"Gilks told me of it just before he came to you, sir," said the captain.

"I never expected to hear such a confession from a Willoughby boy," said
the doctor. "The honour of the whole school has suffered by this
disgraceful action, and if I were to allow it to pass without the
severest possible punishment I should not be doing my duty. Gilks has
done the one thing possible to him to show his remorse for what has
occurred. He has confessed it voluntarily, but I have told him he must
leave the school to-morrow morning."

Gilks remained where he