Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; Football stories; School sports -- Juvenile fiction; Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
Clif’s somewhat doleful reminiscences were broken into by the tooting
of a motor horn down the drive, and a big blue bus rolled past to East
Hall and disgorged nearly a score of very small, very noisy boys. “The
infant class has arrived,” said a youth behind Clif. A second bus
paused at West Hall and a dozen or so older fellows went crowding past,
bag laden, exchanging greetings. A load of trunks passed around the
side of the wing. The tall clock in the reception room chimed out four
o’clock. Another automobile, a hired vehicle, crowded to the steps and
four more laughing, sun-browned fellows piled out of it and dragged
suit cases and bags to the gravel while one of the number haggled
amusingly with the driver. When the new arrivals had disappeared inside
Clif remembered Kemble and wondered if that objectionable youth had
been released from his session with Mr. Wyatt, and, if he had, whether
he was even now preparing for his exodus. Judging from the expression
Clif had seen on his face, Kemble’s chance of remaining at Wyndham
was mighty slim! Well, Clif guessed the school would be well rid of
him. Fellows who hadn’t the common decency to mind their own affairs
and――and didn’t know any better than to sit and gloat over another
chap’s――another chap’s――well, embarrassment, weren’t wanted at a school
like Wyndham. No, sir! Only――well, when you came to think of it, it was
sort of tough to get turned down like that. And the fellow was kind
of nice looking, too; and there had been something about him. Sort
of――sort of appealing. Or――or something. Oh, well, Clif didn’t wish him
any ill luck. If they let him stay it wouldn’t make any difference to
Clif. There’d be room enough for both of them in a school that looked
after a hundred and ninety fellows!
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