“Yes, sir,” answered Oliver.
“Will you come with me to the Doctor at once, please?”
Oliver was out in the passage in a moment, and hurrying with the master to Dr Senior’s study.
“I’m afraid,” said Mr Rastle, as they went—“I’m afraid something has happened to Loman!”
Chapter Thirty Six.
Missing.
Slowly Oliver followed Mr Rastle to the Doctor’s study with strange forebodings at heart.
What the “something that must have happened to Loman” could be, he could not conjecture; but the recollection of his unhappy schoolfellow’s troubles and of his difficulties, and—worse still—of his dishonesty (for Oliver had no doubt in his mind that Loman had taken the examination paper), all came to his mind now with terrifying force.