Yorke. The boys took his words up, ridiculing the notion of _his_
knowing anything of the matter, and they did not spare their taunts.
That roused his temper, and the old fellow let out all he knew. He said
Lady Augusta Yorke was at Galloway's office yesterday, boasting about
it before Jenkins."

"A roundabout tale, indeed!" remarked Mr. Channing; "and told in a
somewhat roundabout manner, Tom. I should not put faith in it. Did you
hear anything of this, Arthur?"

"No, sir. I know that Lady Augusta called at the office yesterday
afternoon while I was at college. I don't know anything more."

"Huntley intends to drop across Jenkins this afternoon, and question
him," resumed Tom Channing. "There can't be any doubt that it was he
who gave the information to Ketch. If Huntley finds that Lady Augusta
did assert it, the school will take the affair up."

The boast amused Hamish. "In what manner will the school be pleased to
'take it up?'" questioned he. "Recommend the dean to hold Mr. Pye under
surveillance? Or send Lady Augusta a challenge?"

Tom Channing nodded his head mysteriously. "There is many a true word
spoken in jest, Hamish. I don't know yet what we should do: we should
do something. The school won't stand it tamely. The day for that
one-sided sort of oppression has gone out with our grandmothers'
fashions."

"It would be very wrong of the school to stand it," said Charley,
throwing in his word. "If the honours are to go by sneaking favour, and