Jack had an ecstatic ten minutes, the final round putting him in the
seventh heaven of enjoyment.

"All I could make out was Acton's white arms mixed with Alabama's black
ones, and the sand flying in all directions. Stunning isn't the word for
it!"

As Acton and young Bourne pedalled leisurely home for roll call, Jack
said--

"I think Jarvis' chance of collaring the Heavy for his place is a trifle
'rocky.'"

"I hope so."

"Crumbs! How Alabama does get home!"




CHAPTER XI

TODD PAYS THE BILL


Another youth had come back to St. Amory's with resolutions as fixed and
steady, though more legitimate than Acton's. Augustus Vernon Robert Todd
returned to school with pockets more scantily lined than ever from the
parental source, with his mind constantly fixed on the conversation which