The Gold Bat

receipt--per the Dexter's fag referred to--of Trevor's invitation, he scratched one engagement (with his mathematical master--not wholly unconnected with the working-out of Examples 200 to 206 in H

put on to translate the one passage which he happened to have prepared--the first ten lines, in fact, of the hundred which formed the morning's lesson. And in the final hour of afternoon school, which was dev

master, looking bored, and a small, dapper man, with a very red face, who looked excited, and was talking volubly. Trevor and

iage, I wonder," said Trevor, looki

Hara, "is Sir E

r Eustace

as Mayor of Wrykyn, a keen politician, and a hater of

dy. Clowes was occupying th

quiet satisfaction about you that seems to s

esson. This desk chanced to be O'Hara's. On the principle that a man may do what he likes with his own, he had entered the room privily in the dinner-hour, and removed the screws from his desk, with the result that for the first half-hour of the lesson the class had been occupied in excavating M. Gandinois from the ruins. T

you came in?" asked Clowes. "Who

man B

o about it? Aren't you g

d O'Hara, warmly,

sto

el

let it go any further. I shall get sacked i

rom the tea-pot he was filling, "

ry idea," suggested Clowes, "

he said, 'ye should look at it. There's something there that ye'll find interesting.' I said, 'Yes, sir?' in me respectful way. 'Yes,' said he, 'the Irish members have been making their customary disturbances in the House. Why is it

" said

d! if that was a temperate letter, I should like to know what an intemperate one is. Well, we read it through, and Moriarty said to me, 'Can we let this stay as it is?' And I said, 'No. We can't.' 'Well,' said Moriarty to me, 'what are we to do about

ing. I always knew you were pretty mad, but this soun

Dexter's house into them? The beds are in two long rows along each wall.

gallery," said

the Old Man's, and we don't see him again till breakfast. He turns the gas off from outside. At half-past seven the next mo

el

ty and I got up, dressed, and climbed up into the gallery. Ye know the gallery windows? They open at the

op," sai

came on top of me. That's how I got hurt. But it wasn't much, and we cut across the grounds, and over the fence

l," said Clowes. "

to the boa

Moriarty had a key that fitted," explained O'Hara, briefly. "We got in, and launched a boat--a big t

r, "you said tar and feathers.

right in the middle of the place, where everybody can see it. Moriarty got up first, and I handed him the tar and a brush. Then I went up with the other brush, and we began. We did his face first. It was too dark to see really well, but I think we made a good job of it. When we

you do till ha

e way we'd come, so we s

," was Trevor's co

ughter. O'Hara was a

g, Trevor asked hi

lost it, I ho

once and transferred it to another pocket. A look of an

rn it was in that

ost it?" queri

ind it somewhere between the baths and the statue. At the foot of the statue, for choice. It see

ave up t

m most awfully sorry. I'd soon

either," snapped Trevor. "Why the

rds. Clowes took it on himself

bably will, you'll simply have to tell the Old Man that it's lost. He'll have another made. You wo

o be given to the authorities before the spo

said Trevor, "but I hope it won't

id he hop