Fred took a hot bath and changed into other clothes, and had soon shaken off all the shock of the accident.
He had barely finished supper when a message was brought to him that Sid wanted to see him.
He went at once, without any thought of what awaited him.
CHAPTER XXVI
SID WILTON TELLS
Fred found Wilton propped up in bed, in a room off the main dormitory that was used in cases of sickness or accident. He looked very white and weak, and, although Fred had never liked the boy, he felt sincerely sorry that he had had such a shock.
He reached out his hand with a friendly smile, and Wilton grasped it eagerly.
“I can’t thank you enough for pulling me out of the snowfall, Rushton,” he said. “I don’t remember much about it after it once buried me, but they tell me that I was all in when you got me. It was an awfully plucky thing for you to do, to hang on when that second mass was coming down, and I don’t believe there’s another fellow in school that would have taken the chance.”
“Oh, yes there are, plenty of them,” said Fred heartily. “I just happened to be the nearest one to you. I’m glad to hear that you will be all right again in a little while.”
“All right in body, perhaps,” said Sid with a faint smile, “but I won’t be all right in mind till I tell you something you ought to know.”