KING OF RANLEIGH / a college tale through CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON
Author of "The Hero of Panama," "The nice Aeroplane," and so forth. etc.
ILLUSTRATED via ERNEST PRATER
CHAPTER I. THE CONSPIRATORS
Clive Darrell took from the pocket of a slightly tattered coat, which bore many a stain and plenty of an indication of difficult put on, a filbert of excellent dimension, and having trendy it in silence cracked an identical via putting it upon a miniature anvil and giving it an adroit blow with a hammer. there has been a precision approximately his routine and his motion which referred to perform. Clive was once inordinately keen on nuts. His wallet bulged extensively with them. As he ate he extracted a handful and provided a few to every of his comrades.
"Here, have a cross. i have tons to attract from. Well?"
"Well?" got here from Hugh Seymour, a boy of his personal age, a little bit greater than thirteen.
But Bert Seymour, brother to Hugh, made no solution. Taller than the opposite , a yr older than his brother, he was once a weedy, lanky early life, working to peak instead of to breadth. He had tossed his cap directly to the bench, in order that he provided a knotted up head of hair, above a face skinny like his body, yet ruddy sufficient, with prepared penetrating eyes which wore a apparently dreamy element for one of these child. He was once cogitating deeply. That was once glaring. yet being the prince of fine fellows, person who made some extent of returning hospitality, he rummaged additionally in his pocket, generating a medley of articles to be chanced on nowhere else shop relating to a schoolboy. a bit of tangled string, part a damaged hinge, a knife, a moment knife, just a little greater and particularly rusty, a size of galvanised twine which made one wonder whether he have been a jack-of-all-trades, 3 handkerchiefs, every one extra poor in visual appeal than the final, a few air-gun slugs, a damaged field for a similar, now empty and significantly broken, and finally, that for which he searched, a respectably sized piece of toffee in a wrapping of paper which used to be damaged at one nook, and during which a half-dozen slugs had contrived to insert themselves and have been now properly imbedded within the sweetmeat.
"Have some," he acknowledged laconically, turning in the packet to Clive.
"Fair does then. Thanks."
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Clive was once dashed again with fantastic violence"
"His rage was once virtually appalling"
"'Look out, Susanne! i am coming in to help'"
"Rawlings and Trendall have been tossed right into a dense mass of bushes"
"'Forward!' ordered the sergeant sternly. 'Rush 'em!'"
"They have been swept again by way of an appalling gush of flame and smoke"
CONTENTS
1. The Conspirators
2. A Booby Trap
3. Off to Ranleigh
4. a few Introductions
5. An Ultimatum
6. Clive and His neighbors Triumphant
7. Plans for an Outing
8. Breaking Bounds
9. Honesty's the easiest Policy
10. The Ruined Tower
11. Bert makes a Discovery
12. Rounding up the Burglars
13. Trendall and a few others
14. The Strenuous Life
15. Sturton's coverage is Vindicated
16. a superb Disturbance
17. who's the Scoundrel?
18. Tracked Down
19. A mammoth Accusation
20. The previous enterprise Hangs Together
21. King of Ranleigh