“Thanks for the ‘though,’ Billy. You know how to put a thing nicely. What’s Mike been up to?”
“It’s that old fool the Gazeka. He came to me frothing with rage, and wanted me to call a prefects’ meeting and touch young Mike up.”
Bob displayed interest and excitement for the first time.
“Prefects’ meeting! What the dickens is up? What’s he been doing? Smith must be drunk. What’s all the row about?”
Burgess repeated the main facts of the case as he had them from Firby-Smith.
“Personally, I sympathise with the kid,” he added, “Still, the Gazeka is a prefect——”
Bob gnawed a pen-holder morosely.
“Silly young idiot,” he said.
“Sickening thing being run out,” suggested Burgess.
“Still——”