"Euclid? I wasn't!"
"What were you drawing, then?"
"Why, a map of the United States!"
"Oh!" The blue eyes opened wide with assumed wonder. "I thought 'twas a figure in Euclid."
"Don't be such a fool!" said Braithwaite testily, while the others laughed.
"Wasn't the arithmetic beastly stiff?" grumbled Tom Moon. "Did anybody do that thing about the two trains passing each other?"
"Oh, that was easy enough!" laughed Temple. "It worked out to thirty-seven seconds and a half."
"I got that," said Braithwaite.
"So did I," cried Dick, throwing up his hat. "Well done, Boden, my boy; you'll pull this scholarship off yet!"
Jim said nothing, but his skin burned like fire as he remembered that his answer was more than an hour and twenty minutes.