The Gayton Scholarship: A School Story

THE GAYTON SCHOLARSHIP
A SCHOOL STORY
HERBERT HAYENS
Author of At the Point of the Sword, An Emperor's Doom, Clevely Sahib, Under the Lone Star, &c. &c.
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS London, Edinburgh, and New York 1904
CONTENTS.
THE GAYTON SCHOLARSHIP.
CHAPTER I.
THE DEANERY CANDIDATES.
Good-morning, Mrs. Hartland. Isn't Jim ready? All right; I'll wait for him. Do you think Susie would care for these wild flowers and grasses? I picked them this morning. Rover and I have been for a splendid run over the common, nearly as far as the forest.
Thanks, Dick, said Mrs. Hartland, with a pleased smile; Susie will be delighted with them. Poor girl! it's little chance she has to see them growing herself. What a pretty white dog-rose!
Isn't it a beauty? I thought Susie would like that.—Hullo, Jim! as his chum appeared from an inner room; come on, old lazy-bones. I expected to find you in a tremendous hurry this morning.—Good-bye, Mrs. Hartland; I hope Susie will be pleased with the flowers.