The Gayton Scholarship

ir eyes from the desk which Percy Braithwaite had occupied. He had not been very popular, but the sta

her pitied him, others looked on him as a hero, while a few b

well for him and the Angel, but 'twas a fool's game to let Dandy into.

laimed another. "And fancy Dick Boden, the little idiot, letting 'em

icks! But he's a good-hearted little chap,

did wrong; and even those who looked askance at Jim w

r late, while Jim did not get in till after prayers. He winced, too, on seeing the vacant desk, but for

actual failure, and as soon as school was dismissed, started for home at full

sk how you are. Well, I've seen your sister. Mother will tel

words brought the bl

se, but he is quite hopeful about it. He has been here nearly two hours, though know

ess," repli

to send a nurse and a proper invalid-chair in the morning, an

rick!" exclaimed J

nths she may be able to walk! He says there was a girl suffering just like Susie

Susie say a

nervous but she is quite willing. It's w

his sister, who was in bed, and feeling r

you?" she asked

you? I shall come to see you on Sundays. And oh, s

answered, "Don't talk about that, Jim-not yet. I t

toutly. "The doctor would not say there was

at?" asked the

and go on hoping all the time. Now I must

back, saying, "I should lik

e'll come in this evening. Old Dick will be a

his chum till after school, when, as usual, Di

ough in the hospital; but, I say, fancy her walking! Even if she has to use a crutch it will be somet

amous chair the next morning, and also looked in hims

ing too. Why, it's quite a royal procession. And on Sunday we shal

it volubly and freely, agreeing on the whole with the crushing remark of Mrs. Ar

An' her brother goin' round with papers! It's a wonder they don't

it, and the child smiled with pleasure on seeing the snowy sheets and soft white pillows and pretty counterpane. Then, when she was cozily t

rting with her mother, but the nurse was so

sat alone with her work. Although an invalid, Susie was always bright and

Old Fort. Although a strong, healthy boy, he was extremely sensitive, and conjured up all sorts things that existed only in his imagination. School no lo

ng about like a barn owl? You did your best to save Braithwaite, and you can't bring hi

ks, and the fellows look as if I had committed a murder; and it's just

t you had more grit. I'm sure no one could have been kinder than Laythorne; and as for the

et a berth on board sh

ter? Well you're a bigger coward tha

m, he took a more sensible view of things. He admitted they had acted foolishly, and without thought; but they had done their best, Jim especially, to remed

und to this view, but for an unexpected event w

r tea. Mr. Broad was absent when the papers arrived, so that

her. Then with feverish anxiety he read the paragraph at a glance, and stood leaning over the counter like one dazed. Was it possible? Coul

t as it appeared in The

Forty-five candidates, the cream of the elementary schools, were examined, and we give below the

E. SCHOO

y . . . . Deanery

. . . . . St. Pau

. . . . . Bath St

. . . . . Deanery

. . . . Royal Br

Charles . Somert

t which recently occurred at the Old Fort, in which Percy Braithwaite lost his life. Great sympathy is felt for the sorrowing parents. It is sad to think of the early termination to what evidently might

to win the scholarship; they had coupled his name with it as far back as the cricket match for the Challenge Shi

shamed. He felt the blow with bitter humiliation, and while doing his round that evening he had not the c

, and even by the light-hearted Angel! This was where the sting lay, because, k

illness; but he could not tell all the world that. The Deanery fellows bothered little about his misfortunes; in th

f the news; so that his mother, who rarely bou

thought bitterly, "and on Sund