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G. Wodehouse</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Mike</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: P. G. Wodehouse</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: June 15, 2004 [eBook #7423]<br /> -[Most recently updated: May 1, 2023]</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Suzanne L. Shell, Jim Tinsley, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIKE ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 7423 ***</div> <h1>MIKE</h1> <h2>A PUBLIC SCHOOL STORY</h2> -<h3>BY</h3> -<h2>P. G. WODEHOUSE</h2> +<div class="h3">BY</div> +<div class="h2">P. G. WODEHOUSE</div> -<h4>AUTHOR OF “THE GOLD BAT,” “A PREFECT’S UNCLE,” ETC.</h4> +<div class="h4">AUTHOR OF “THE GOLD BAT,” “A PREFECT’S UNCLE,” ETC.</div> -<h4>CONTAINING TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY</h4> -<h3>T. M. R. WHITWELL</h3> +<div class="h4">CONTAINING TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY</div> +<div class="h3">T. M. R. WHITWELL</div> -<h4>LONDON<br/> -1909</h4> +<div class="h4">LONDON<br> +1909</div> <p class="center"> -<img src="images/jmike1.jpg" alt="“ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON THEN WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIFTY ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?”" /> +<img src="images/jmike1.jpg" alt="“ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON THEN WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIFTY ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?”"> </p> -<h4>[Dedication]<br/> -TO<br/> -ALAN DURAND</h4> +<div class="h4">[Dedication]<br> +TO<br> +ALAN DURAND</div> -<hr /> +<hr > -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr><td> </td><td><h2>CONTENTS</h2></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td><b>CHAPTER</b></td></tr> +<tr><td><b>CHAPTER</b></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td><b>I. </b></td><td><a href="#ch1">M<small>IKE</small></a></td></tr> <tr><td><b>II. </b></td><td><a href="#ch2">T<small>HE JOURNEY DOWN</small></a></td></tr> @@ -171,60 +152,60 @@ ALAN DURAND</h4> <h2>BY T. M. R. WHITWELL</h2> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus1"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus1"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “A<small>RE YOU THE M. JACKSON, THEN, WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIFTY-ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus2"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus2"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> T<small>HE DARK WATERS WERE LASHED INTO A MAELSTROM</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus3"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus3"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “D<small>ON’T <i>LAUGH</i>, YOU GRINNING APE”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus4"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus4"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “D<small>O—YOU—SEE, YOU FRIGHTFUL KID?”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus5"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus5"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “W<small>HAT’S ALL THIS ABOUT JIMMY WYATT?”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus6"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus6"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> M<small>IKE AND THE BALL ARRIVED ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus7"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus7"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “W<small>HAT THE DICKENS ARE YOU DOING HERE?”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus8"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus8"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> P<small>SMITH SEIZED AND EMPTIED JELLICOE’S JUG OVER SPILLER</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus9"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus9"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “W<small>HY DID YOU SAY YOU DIDN’T PLAY CRICKET?” HE ASKED</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus10"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus10"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “W<small>HO—” HE SHOUTED, “</small><i>WHO</i><small> HAS DONE THIS?”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus11"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus11"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> “D<small>ID—YOU—PUT—THAT—BOOT—THERE, SMITH?”</small></td></tr> <tr><td> -<a href="#illus12"><big><big>*</big></big></a></td><td> +<a href="#illus12"><span style="font-size: larger"><span style="font-size: larger">*</span></span></a></td><td> M<small>IKE DROPPED THE SOOT-COVERED OBJECT IN THE FENDER</small></td></tr> </table> <h3 class="chap"> -<a name="ch1"> -CHAPTER I<br/><br/> +<a id="ch1"> +CHAPTER I<br><br> MIKE</a></h3> <p>It was a morning in the middle of @@ -441,7 +422,7 @@ utmost dignity.</p> <p>“Good,” he said. “I say, what’s under that dish?”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>After breakfast, Mike and Marjory went off together to the meadow at the end of the @@ -549,8 +530,8 @@ have him in the team before you could say knife.”</p> net, and watched more hopefully.</p> <h3 class="chap"> -<a name="ch2"> -CHAPTER II<br/><br/> +<a id="ch2"> +CHAPTER II<br><br> THE JOURNEY DOWN</a></h3> <p>The seeing off of Mike on the last @@ -711,7 +692,7 @@ a flesh wound.) Then he sat down again with the inward glow of satisfaction which comes to one when one has risen successfully to a sudden emergency.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The glow lasted till the next stoppage, which did not occur for a good many miles. Then @@ -867,8 +848,8 @@ he’ll hate most. Hullo, here we are.”</p> <p>Mike looked out of the window. It was Wrykyn at last.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch3"> -CHAPTER III<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch3"> +CHAPTER III<br><br> MIKE FINDS A FRIENDLY NATIVE</a></h3> <p>Mike was surprised to find, on alighting, @@ -1202,8 +1183,8 @@ you over the rest of the school. You’ll have to see it sooner or later, so you may as well get it over at once.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch4"> -CHAPTER IV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch4"> +CHAPTER IV<br><br> AT THE NETS</a></h3> <p>There are few better things in life @@ -1334,7 +1315,7 @@ to bowl to him, you’re making a fatal error.”</p> Just sit and watch. I rather fancy this kid’s something special.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mike put on Wyatt’s pads and gloves, borrowed his bat, and walked round into the @@ -1472,8 +1453,8 @@ he said to himself, as he saw his name on the list. <p>And that night he wrote a letter to his father, notifying him of the fact.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch5"> -CHAPTER V<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch5"> +CHAPTER V<br><br> REVELRY BY NIGHT</a></h3> <p>A succession of events combined to @@ -1707,7 +1688,7 @@ chair at the head of the house. Overcoming this feeling, he walked out of the room, and up to his dormitory to change.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>In the dormitory that night the feeling of revolt, of wanting to do something actively illegal, @@ -1762,7 +1743,7 @@ Ripton. So long.”</p> on the window-sill, wriggled out. Mike saw him disappearing along the wall.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>It was all very well for Wyatt to @@ -1912,8 +1893,8 @@ that all was well! Wyatt was still in the garden somewhere, blissfully unconscious of what was going on indoors. He would be caught for a certainty!</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch6"> -CHAPTER VI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch6"> +CHAPTER VI<br><br> IN WHICH A TIGHT CORNER IS EVADED</a></h3> <p>For a moment the situation paralysed @@ -2206,8 +2187,8 @@ of complying with my wishes.”</p> <p>They made it so.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch7"> -CHAPTER VII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch7"> +CHAPTER VII<br><br> IN WHICH MIKE IS DISCUSSED</a></h3> <p>Trevor and Clowes, of Donaldson’s, @@ -2444,7 +2425,7 @@ the good of worrying. It’s nothing to do with us, anyhow. Let’s stagger out, shall we?”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Trevor’s conscientious nature, however, made it impossible for him to drop the matter. @@ -2585,8 +2566,8 @@ remotely resembling sense and coherence, he allowed the question of Mike’s welfare to fade from his mind like a dissolving view.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch8"> -CHAPTER VIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch8"> +CHAPTER VIII<br><br> A ROW WITH THE TOWN</a></h3> <p>The beginning of a big row, one of @@ -2672,7 +2653,7 @@ would do, only I’d rather it was five bob.”</p> these words: “Or a bob would be better than nothing.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The outline of the case was as Mike had stated. But there were certain details of @@ -2815,7 +2796,7 @@ as one man.</p> two remained, tackled low by Wyatt and Clowes after the fashion of the football-field.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The school gathered round its prisoners, panting. The scene of the conflict had shifted @@ -2924,8 +2905,8 @@ was over.</p> maelstrom; and then two streaming figures squelched up the further bank.</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus2"> -<img src="images/jmike2.jpg" alt="THE DARK WATERS WERE LASHED INTO A MAELSTROM" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus2"> +<img src="images/jmike2.jpg" alt="THE DARK WATERS WERE LASHED INTO A MAELSTROM"> </a></p> <p>The school stood in silent consternation. @@ -2936,8 +2917,8 @@ as he watched the Law shaking the water from itself on the other side of the pond, “I’m not half sure that we hadn’t better be moving!”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch9"> -CHAPTER IX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch9"> +CHAPTER IX<br><br> BEFORE THE STORM</a></h3> <p>Your real, devastating row has many @@ -3120,7 +3101,7 @@ that something is going to happen is the salt of life....</p> all. The blow had fallen, and crushed guilty and innocent alike.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The school’s attitude can be summed up in three words. It was one vast, blank, @@ -3130,7 +3111,7 @@ astounded “Here, I say!”</p> always in those words. When condensed, everybody’s comment on the situation came to that.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>There is something rather pathetic in the indignation of a school. It must always, @@ -3151,7 +3132,7 @@ and he proceeded now to carry it on till it blazed up into the biggest thing of its kind ever known at Wrykyn—the Great Picnic.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Any one who knows the public schools, their ironbound conservatism, and, as a whole, intense @@ -3267,7 +3248,7 @@ let you know.”</p> “Tell them that I shall be going anyhow. I should be glad of a little company.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The school turned in on the Thursday night in a restless, excited way. There were @@ -3277,8 +3258,8 @@ innocently on the approach of some person in authority.</p> <p>An air of expectancy permeated each of the houses.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch10"> -CHAPTER X<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch10"> +CHAPTER X<br><br> THE GREAT PICNIC</a></h3> <p>Morning school at Wrykyn started at @@ -3568,8 +3549,8 @@ Most.”</p> <p>The bereaved company of masters walked on up the stairs that led to the Great Hall.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch11"> -CHAPTER XI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch11"> +CHAPTER XI<br><br> THE CONCLUSION OF THE PICNIC</a></h3> <p>If the form-rooms had been lonely, @@ -3865,7 +3846,7 @@ And the army lunched sumptuously.</p> <p>In the early afternoon they rested, and as evening began to fall, the march home was started.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>At the school, net practice was just coming to an end when, faintly, as the garrison of @@ -3889,8 +3870,8 @@ met Wyatt at the gate, and gazed at him, speechless.</p> to the nets? I wonder if there’s time for a ginger-beer before the shop shuts.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch12"> -CHAPTER XII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch12"> +CHAPTER XII<br><br> MIKE GETS HIS CHANCE</a></h3> <p>The headmaster was quite bland and @@ -3984,7 +3965,7 @@ numbered four hundred.</p> <p>“Bates must have got writer’s cramp,” said Clowes, as he read the huge scroll.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Wyatt met Mike after school, as they went back to the house.</p> @@ -4097,7 +4078,7 @@ carry on the good work in the evening.”</p> <p>“I say,” said Mike, overcome, “it’s awfully decent of you, Wyatt.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Billy Burgess, captain of Wrykyn cricket, was a genial giant, who seldom allowed himself to @@ -4229,7 +4210,7 @@ to respect you in your old age, wouldn’t you? Very well, then. So long. The bell went ages ago. I shall be locked out.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>On the Monday morning Mike passed the notice-board just as Burgess turned away from @@ -4239,8 +4220,8 @@ bottom but one, just above the W. B. Burgess, was a name that leaped from the paper at him. His own name.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch13"> -CHAPTER XIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch13"> +CHAPTER XIII<br><br> THE M.C.C. MATCH</a></h3> <p>If the day happens to be fine, there @@ -4356,7 +4337,7 @@ the minuses.”</p> said the other with dignity. “Do you think I don’t know the elementary duties of a captain?”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The school went out to field with mixed feelings. The wicket was hard and true, @@ -4432,7 +4413,7 @@ Saunders, coming in last, hit two boundaries, and was then caught by Mike. His second hit had just lifted the M.C.C. total over the three hundred.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Three hundred is a score that takes some making on any ground, but on a fine day it was @@ -4671,8 +4652,8 @@ wicket-keeper, “nothing. But in a few years I’m afraid it’s going to be put badly out of joint.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch14"> -CHAPTER XIV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch14"> +CHAPTER XIV<br><br> A SLIGHT IMBROGLIO</a></h3> <p>Mike got his third eleven colours @@ -4703,7 +4684,7 @@ shot.”</p> <p>But Burgess, as has been pointed out, was not a person who ever became gushing with enthusiasm.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>So Wilkins, of the School House, who had played twice for the first eleven, dropped down @@ -4820,8 +4801,8 @@ that the criminal was amused.</p> <p>“Don’t <i>laugh</i>, you grinning ape!” he cried. “It isn’t funny.”</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus3"> -<img src="images/jmike3.jpg" alt="“DON’T LAUGH, YOU GRINNING APE”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus3"> +<img src="images/jmike3.jpg" alt="“DON’T LAUGH, YOU GRINNING APE”"> </a></p> <p>He then made for the trees where the rest of the team @@ -4898,8 +4879,8 @@ rush through without thinking about it.”</p> <p>And the matter was left temporarily at that.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch15"> -CHAPTER XV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch15"> +CHAPTER XV<br><br> MIKE CREATES A VACANCY</a></h3> <p>Burgess walked off the ground feeling @@ -5115,7 +5096,7 @@ isn’t as if he did that sort of thing as a habit.”</p> <p>“Thanks,” said Bob, and went to find Mike.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The lecture on deportment which he read that future All-England batsman in a secluded @@ -5191,7 +5172,7 @@ hurriedly, came to the conclusion that it must be something in the Jackson blood, some taint, as it were. They were <i>all</i> beasts.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mike walked on, weighing this remark, and gradually made up his mind. It must be remembered @@ -5242,8 +5223,8 @@ after all, wrote a note to Bob at Donaldson’s, telling him to be ready to start with the team for Geddington by the 8.54 next morning.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch16"> -CHAPTER XVI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch16"> +CHAPTER XVI<br><br> AN EXPERT EXAMINATION</a></h3> <p>Mike’s Uncle John was a wanderer @@ -5572,7 +5553,7 @@ time.</p> <p>It ran as follows:</p> <p>“Geddington 247 (Burgess six -wickets, Neville-Smith four).<br/> +wickets, Neville-Smith four).<br> Wrykyn 270 for nine (Berridge 86, Marsh 58, Jackson 48).”</p> <p>Mike worked his way back through the throng, and rejoined @@ -5591,8 +5572,8 @@ silently slid a sovereign into Mike’s hand.</p> <p>It was the only possible reply.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch17"> -CHAPTER XVII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch17"> +CHAPTER XVII<br><br> ANOTHER VACANCY</a></h3> <p>Wyatt got back late that night, arriving @@ -5743,7 +5724,7 @@ be much better.”</p> <p>The conversation turned to less pressing topics.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>In the next two matches, accordingly, Bob figured on the boundary, where he had not much @@ -5759,7 +5740,7 @@ returning slowly, drop by drop.</p> <p>As for Mike, he played for the second, and hoped for the day.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>His opportunity came at last. It will be remembered that on the morning after the @@ -5858,8 +5839,8 @@ to select a substitute for him.</p> once again into the ranks of the elect, and found his name down in the team to play against the Incogniti.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch18"> -CHAPTER XVIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch18"> +CHAPTER XVIII<br><br> BOB HAS NEWS TO IMPART</a></h3> <p>Wrykyn went down badly before the @@ -5945,7 +5926,7 @@ get in next year, of course, so perhaps it would be better if Bob got the place as it’s his last season. Still, one wants the best man, of course.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mike avoided Bob as much as possible during this anxious period; and he privately thought @@ -6111,8 +6092,8 @@ customary time for rising was not among Mike’s favourite pastimes. Still, orders were orders, he felt. It would have to be done.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch19"> -CHAPTER XIX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch19"> +CHAPTER XIX<br><br> MIKE GOES TO SLEEP AGAIN</a></h3> <p>Mike was a stout supporter of the @@ -6290,8 +6271,8 @@ when I think it necessary. See?”</p> <p>“Do—you—see, you frightful kid?”</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus4"> -<img src="images/jmike4.jpg" alt="“DO—YOU—SEE, YOU FRIGHTFUL KID?”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus4"> +<img src="images/jmike4.jpg" alt="“DO—YOU—SEE, YOU FRIGHTFUL KID?”"> </a></p> <p>Mike remained stonily silent. @@ -6314,7 +6295,7 @@ a corner.</p> <p>What one really wants here is a row of stars.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mike was still full of his injuries when Wyatt came back. Wyatt was worn out, but @@ -6473,8 +6454,8 @@ for the first time in his life, Mike went to sleep with a clear idea of what the public school spirit, of which so much is talked and written, really meant.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch20"> -CHAPTER XX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch20"> +CHAPTER XX<br><br> THE TEAM IS FILLED UP</a></h3> <p>When Burgess, at the end of the conversation @@ -6559,7 +6540,7 @@ up notices except during the morning, he postponed the thing. He could write it after tea. After all, there was a week before the match.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>When school was over, he went across to the Infirmary to inquire about Marsh. The @@ -6681,7 +6662,7 @@ struck him as a crime.</p> <p>He felt that he had been deceived in Mike.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>When, therefore, one takes into consideration his private bias in favour of Bob, and adds to it @@ -6719,8 +6700,8 @@ list.</p> <p>Bob had beaten him on the tape.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch21"> -CHAPTER XXI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch21"> +CHAPTER XXI<br><br> MARJORY THE FRANK</a></h3> <p>At the door of the senior block Burgess, @@ -6827,7 +6808,7 @@ give it you in the interval.”</p> <p>The arrival of the headmaster put an end to the conversation.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>By a quarter to eleven Mike had begun to grow reconciled to his fate. The disappointment @@ -7080,8 +7061,8 @@ a second, I just want to speak to Wyatt about something.”</p> <p>“Well, anyhow,” said Bob to himself, “I must see Burgess about it.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch22"> -CHAPTER XXII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch22"> +CHAPTER XXII<br><br> WYATT IS REMINDED OF AN ENGAGEMENT</a></h3> <p>There are situations in life which @@ -7228,7 +7209,7 @@ able to do anything. So long.”</p> <p>“Mind the step,” said Burgess.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>At about the time when this conversation was in progress, Wyatt, crossing the cricket-field @@ -7355,8 +7336,8 @@ I don’t want to get you into a row.”</p> said Wyatt. “Don’t you worry about me. I should have gone out anyhow to-night.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch23"> -CHAPTER XXIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch23"> +CHAPTER XXIII<br><br> A SURPRISE FOR MR. APPLEBY</a></h3> <p>“You may not know it,” @@ -7453,7 +7434,7 @@ was in plenty of time.</p> <p>“What a night!” he said to himself, sniffing as he walked.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Now it happened that he was not alone in admiring the beauty of that particular night. @@ -7585,7 +7566,7 @@ the few cases where it was possible for an assistant master to fulfil his duty to a parent directly, instead of through the agency of the headmaster.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Knocking out the ashes of his pipe against a tree, he folded his deck-chair and went @@ -7622,8 +7603,8 @@ And, greatly to Mr. Wain’s surprise and rather to his disapproval, Mr. Appleby vaulted on to the window-sill, and squeezed through into the room.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch24"> -CHAPTER XXIV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch24"> +CHAPTER XXIV<br><br> CAUGHT</a></h3> <p>“Got some rather bad news for @@ -7839,7 +7820,7 @@ back to the night when he had saved Wyatt by a brilliant could effect nothing now. Absolutely and entirely the game was up.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Every minute that passed seemed like an hour to Mike. Dead silence reigned in the @@ -7868,8 +7849,8 @@ His voice sounded ominously hollow.</p> his hands together. “Hullo, is that you, father!” he said pleasantly.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch25"> -CHAPTER XXV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch25"> +CHAPTER XXV<br><br> MARCHING ORDERS</a></h3> <p>A silence followed. To Mike, @@ -7956,7 +7937,7 @@ latest news when I come back. Where are me slippers? Ha, ’tis well! Lead on, then, minions. I follow.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>In the study Mr. Wain was fumbling restlessly with his papers when Wyatt appeared.</p> @@ -8091,7 +8072,7 @@ That is all. Have you anything to say?”</p> “Can’t I mix you a whisky and soda, father, before I go off to bed?”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>“Well?” said Mike.</p> @@ -8118,8 +8099,8 @@ in another fortnight. So why worry?”</p> was doubtless philosophic, but it failed to comfort him.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch26"> -CHAPTER XXVI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch26"> +CHAPTER XXVI<br><br> THE AFTERMATH</a></h3> <p>Bad news spreads quickly. By @@ -8135,8 +8116,8 @@ here you are. What’s all this about Jimmy Wyatt? They’re saying he’s been sacked, or some rot.”</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus5"> -<img src="images/jmike5.jpg" alt="“WHAT’S ALL THIS ABOUT JIMMY WYATT?”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus5"> +<img src="images/jmike5.jpg" alt="“WHAT’S ALL THIS ABOUT JIMMY WYATT?”"> </a></p> <p>“So he has—at least, he’s got @@ -8392,8 +8373,8 @@ dressing-room, the door of which that cautious pedagogue, who believed in taking no chances, locked from the outside on retiring to rest.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch27"> -CHAPTER XXVII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch27"> +CHAPTER XXVII<br><br> THE RIPTON MATCH</a></h3> <p>Mike got an answer from his father @@ -8469,7 +8450,7 @@ twelve colours given three years ago, because one chap left at half-term and the man who played instead of him came off against Ripton.” </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>This had occurred to Mike independently. The Ripton match was a special event, and the man @@ -8577,7 +8558,7 @@ the fellows to look out for it.”</p> <p>“I should. And, above all, win the toss.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Burgess and Maclaine, the Ripton captain, were old acquaintances. They had been at the @@ -8613,7 +8594,7 @@ you.”</p> to have plenty of sawdust ready, as he would want the field paved with it.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The policy of the Ripton team was obvious from the first over. They meant to force @@ -8700,8 +8681,8 @@ and with it the luncheon interval.</p> <p>So far it was anybody’s game.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch28"> -CHAPTER XXVIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch28"> +CHAPTER XXVIII<br><br> MIKE WINS HOME</a></h3> <p>The Ripton last-wicket man was de @@ -8758,7 +8739,7 @@ to the pavilion, for this or any ground.</p> <p>The Ripton total was a hundred and sixty-six.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>With the ground in its usual true, hard condition, Wrykyn would have gone in against @@ -9197,8 +9178,8 @@ It rolled in the direction of third man.</p> wicket almost simultaneously. Another fraction of a second, and he would have been run out.</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus6"> -<img src="images/jmike6.jpg" alt="MIKE AND THE BALL ARRIVED ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus6"> +<img src="images/jmike6.jpg" alt="MIKE AND THE BALL ARRIVED ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY"> </a></p> <p>The last balls of the next two overs @@ -9260,13 +9241,13 @@ the bowling was not de Freece’s.</p> a four to leg and two two’s through the slips settled the thing.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Devenish was caught and bowled in de Freece’s next over; but the Wrykyn total was one hundred and seventy-two.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>“Good game,” said Maclaine, meeting Burgess in the pavilion. “Who was @@ -9292,8 +9273,8 @@ as a sub.”</p> <p>“You’ve got a rum idea of what’s funny,” said Maclaine.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch29"> -CHAPTER XXIX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch29"> +CHAPTER XXIX<br><br> WYATT AGAIN</a></h3> <p>It was a morning in the middle of @@ -9426,8 +9407,8 @@ glad he’s having such a ripping time. It must be almost as decent as Wrykyn out there.... I say, what’s under that dish?”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch30"> -CHAPTER XXX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch30"> +CHAPTER XXX<br><br> MR. JACKSON MAKES UP HIS MIND</a></h3> <p>Two years have elapsed and Mike is home again for @@ -9763,8 +9744,8 @@ of Sedleigh,” added Mr. Jackson.</p> deal better than saying what he would have liked to have said.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch31"> -CHAPTER XXXI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch31"> +CHAPTER XXXI<br><br> SEDLEIGH</a></h3> <p>The train, which had been stopping @@ -9979,8 +9960,8 @@ A Nursery Garden in the Home. That sort of idea. My name,” he added pensively, “is Smith. What’s yours?”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch32"> -CHAPTER XXXII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch32"> +CHAPTER XXXII<br><br> PSMITH</a></h3> <p>“Jackson,” said Mike.</p> @@ -10216,8 +10197,8 @@ day. And now, if you want to be really useful, come and help me fetch up my box from downstairs. It’s got an Etna and various things in it.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch33"> -CHAPTER XXXIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch33"> +CHAPTER XXXIII<br><br> STAKING OUT A CLAIM</a></h3> <p>Psmith, in the matter of decorating @@ -10290,8 +10271,8 @@ honours.</p> <p>“What the dickens,” inquired the newcomer, “are you doing here?”</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus7"> -<img src="images/jmike7.jpg" alt="“WHAT THE DICKENS ARE YOU DOING HERE?”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus7"> +<img src="images/jmike7.jpg" alt="“WHAT THE DICKENS ARE YOU DOING HERE?”"> </a></p> <p>“We were having a little tea,” @@ -10573,8 +10554,8 @@ said Psmith, as they closed the door, “is very, very trying for a man of culture. Look us up in our study one of these afternoons.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch34"> -CHAPTER XXXIV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch34"> +CHAPTER XXXIV<br><br> GUERRILLA WARFARE</a></h3> <p>“There are few pleasures,” @@ -10979,8 +10960,8 @@ doing till bedtime, I think I’ll collar this table and write home and tell my people that all is well with their Rupert.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch35"> -CHAPTER XXXV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch35"> +CHAPTER XXXV<br><br> UNPLEASANTNESS IN THE SMALL HOURS</a></h3> <p>Jellicoe, that human encyclopaedia, @@ -11198,8 +11179,8 @@ seized and emptied Jellicoe’s jug over Spiller, getting to work again with the cord in a manner that roused the utmost enthusiasm of the spectators.</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus8"> -<img src="images/jmike8.jpg" alt="PSMITH SEIZED AND EMPTIED JELLICOE’S JUG OVER SPILLER" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus8"> +<img src="images/jmike8.jpg" alt="PSMITH SEIZED AND EMPTIED JELLICOE’S JUG OVER SPILLER"> </a></p> <p>Agility seemed to be the leading feature @@ -11266,15 +11247,15 @@ footsteps, and silence reigned.</p> <p>On the following morning there was a notice on the house-board. It ran:</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus13"> +<p class="center"><a id="illus13"> <img src="images/jmike13.png" alt="INDOOR GAMES: Dormitory-raiders are informed that in future neither Mr. Psmith nor Mr. Jackson will be at home to visitors. -This nuisance must now cease. R. PSMITH. M. JACKSON." /> +This nuisance must now cease. R. PSMITH. M. JACKSON."> </a></p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch36"> -CHAPTER XXXVI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch36"> +CHAPTER XXXVI<br><br> ADAIR</a></h3> <p>On the same morning Mike met Adair for the first time.</p> @@ -11569,8 +11550,8 @@ loves us. Let’s go on and see what sort of a lunch that large-hearted fossil-fancier is going to give us.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch37"> -CHAPTER XXXVII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch37"> +CHAPTER XXXVII<br><br> MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION</a></h3> <p>There was more than one moment during @@ -11634,7 +11615,7 @@ game, mostly in Downing’s house.</p> <p>Altogether, quite worthy colleagues even for a man who had been a star at Wrykyn.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>One solitary overture Mike made during that first fortnight. He did not repeat the experiment. @@ -11676,7 +11657,7 @@ game.</p> <p>Mike walked away without a word.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The Archaeological Society expeditions, even though they carried with them the privilege of @@ -11873,7 +11854,7 @@ shirt-front.”</p> <p>“I’ll play on a rockery, if you want me to,” said Mike.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>“You’re going to what?” asked Psmith, sleepily, on being awakened and told @@ -11890,15 +11871,15 @@ dislike, but watching cricket is one of the finest of Britain’s manly sports. I’ll borrow Jellicoe’s bicycle.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>That Saturday, Lower Borlock smote the men of Chidford hip and thigh. Their victory was due to a hurricane innings of seventy-five by a new-comer to the team, M. Jackson.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch38"> -CHAPTER XXXVIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch38"> +CHAPTER XXXVIII<br><br> THE FIRE BRIGADE MEETING</a></h3> <p>Cricket is the great safety-valve. @@ -11989,7 +11970,7 @@ rat, much in request during French lessons.</p> <p>We will now proceed to the painful details.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The meetings of the Fire Brigade were held after school in Mr. Downing’s form-room. @@ -12311,8 +12292,8 @@ their time. That will do, Jackson.”</p> room. In affairs of this kind a master has a habit of getting the last word.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch39"> -CHAPTER XXXIX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch39"> +CHAPTER XXXIX<br><br> ACHILLES LEAVES HIS TENT</a></h3> <p>They say misfortunes never come singly. @@ -12570,8 +12551,8 @@ respect for Wrykyn cricket.</p> who had an average of fifty-one point nought three last year?”</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus1"> -<img src="images/jmike1.jpg" alt="“ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON, THEN, WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIFTY-ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus1"> +<img src="images/jmike1.jpg" alt="“ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON, THEN, WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIFTY-ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?”"> </a></p> <p>“Yes.”</p> @@ -12585,8 +12566,8 @@ you play against Downing’s to-morrow?”</p> <p>“Rather,” said Mike. “Thanks awfully. Have some tea?”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch40"> -CHAPTER XL<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch40"> +CHAPTER XL<br><br> THE MATCH WITH DOWNING’S</a></h3> <p>It is the curious instinct which prompts @@ -12649,7 +12630,7 @@ has bounds.”</p> is fierce, and the Selection Committee unfortunately passed me over.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>There were a number of pitches dotted about over the field, for there was always a touch @@ -12670,7 +12651,7 @@ had spoken certain home truths to the ground-man. The latter’s reformation had dated from that moment.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Barnes, timidly jubilant, came up to Mike with the news that he had won the toss, and @@ -12830,7 +12811,7 @@ of eleven.</p> <p>Mike had then made a hundred and three.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>As Mike was taking off his pads in the pavilion, Adair came up.</p> @@ -12838,8 +12819,8 @@ the pavilion, Adair came up.</p> <p>“Why did you say you didn’t play cricket?” he asked abruptly.</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus9"> -<img src="images/jmike9.jpg" alt="“WHY DID YOU SAY YOU DIDN’T PLAY CRICKET?” HE ASKED" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus9"> +<img src="images/jmike9.jpg" alt="“WHY DID YOU SAY YOU DIDN’T PLAY CRICKET?” HE ASKED"> </a></p> <p>When one has been bowling the whole @@ -13063,7 +13044,7 @@ if we did anything like that without consulting him.”</p> <p>Mr. Downing walked moodily to his place.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>In a neat wooden frame in the senior day-room at Outwood’s, just above the mantelpiece, @@ -13074,20 +13055,20 @@ The writing on it was as follows:</p> <p class="center"><i>Outwood’s. First innings.</i></p> -<table summary="" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"> -<tr><td>J. P. Barnes, <i>c</i>. Hammond, <i>b</i>. Hassall...</td><td align="right">33</td></tr> -<tr><td>M. Jackson, not out........................ </td><td align="right">277</td></tr> -<tr><td>W. J. Stone, not out....................... </td><td align="right">124</td></tr> -<tr><td>Extras...............................</td><td align="right">37</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td align="right">-----</td></tr> -<tr><td>Total (for one wicket)...... </td><td align="right">471</td></tr> +<table style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"> +<tr><td>J. P. Barnes, <i>c</i>. Hammond, <i>b</i>. Hassall...</td><td style="text-align: right;">33</td></tr> +<tr><td>M. Jackson, not out........................ </td><td style="text-align: right;">277</td></tr> +<tr><td>W. J. Stone, not out....................... </td><td style="text-align: right;">124</td></tr> +<tr><td>Extras...............................</td><td style="text-align: right;">37</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td style="text-align: right;">-----</td></tr> +<tr><td>Total (for one wicket)...... </td><td style="text-align: right;">471</td></tr> </table> <p class="center">Downing’s did not bat.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch41"> -CHAPTER XLI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch41"> +CHAPTER XLI<br><br> THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF JELLICOE</a></h3> <p>Outwood’s rollicked considerably @@ -13179,7 +13160,7 @@ other end, and sent him the glad news on a picture post-card. I think an eye ought to be kept on Comrade Jellicoe.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mike tumbled into bed that night like a log, but he could not sleep. He ached all over. @@ -13391,15 +13372,15 @@ of his coat.</p> <p>It was a wrench, but, if the situation was so serious with Jellicoe, it had to be done.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Two minutes later the night was being made hideous by Jellicoe’s almost tearful protestations of gratitude, and the postal order had moved from one side of the dormitory to the other.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch42"> -CHAPTER XLII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch42"> +CHAPTER XLII<br><br> JELLICOE GOES ON THE SICK-LIST</a></h3> <p>Mike woke next morning with a confused @@ -13512,7 +13493,7 @@ translate in Cicero. Which Mike, who happened to have prepared the first half-page, did with much success.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>The Old Boys’ match was timed to begin shortly after eleven o’clock. @@ -13589,8 +13570,8 @@ and they staggered off together, Jellicoe hopping, Dunster advancing with a sort of polka step. Mike watched them start and then turned to go in.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch43"> -CHAPTER XLIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch43"> +CHAPTER XLIII<br><br> MIKE RECEIVES A COMMISSION</a></h3> <p>There is only one thing to be said @@ -13886,8 +13867,8 @@ I don’t know what I should have done, I——”</p> <p>“Oh, chuck it!” said Mike.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch44"> -CHAPTER XLIV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch44"> +CHAPTER XLIV<br><br> AND FULFILS IT</a></h3> <p>Mike started on his ride to Lower @@ -14112,7 +14093,7 @@ back the envelope with the five pounds, accepted a stone ginger beer and a plateful of biscuits, and rode off on his return journey.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mention has been made above of the difference which exists between getting into an inn @@ -14142,8 +14123,8 @@ Mike’s first term at Wrykyn.</p> <p>He had got about half-way up when a voice from somewhere below cried, “Who’s that?”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch45"> -CHAPTER XLV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch45"> +CHAPTER XLV<br><br> PURSUIT</a></h3> <p>These things are Life’s Little @@ -14471,8 +14452,8 @@ hive of bees had been disturbed.</p> <p>The school was awake.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch46"> -CHAPTER XLVI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch46"> +CHAPTER XLVI<br><br> THE DECORATION OF SAMMY</a></h3> <p>Psmith leaned against the mantelpiece @@ -14673,8 +14654,8 @@ any one, of course.”</p> <p>Mike walked to chapel rather thoughtfully.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch47"> -CHAPTER XLVII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch47"> +CHAPTER XLVII<br><br> MR. DOWNING ON THE SCENT</a></h3> <p>There was just one moment, the moment @@ -14693,8 +14674,8 @@ onlookers reassured him.</p> <p>“Who—” he shouted, “WHO has done this?”</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus10"> -<img src="images/jmike10.jpg" alt="“WHO—” HE SHOUTED, “WHO HAS DONE THIS?”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus10"> +<img src="images/jmike10.jpg" alt="“WHO—” HE SHOUTED, “WHO HAS DONE THIS?”"> </a></p> <p>“Please, sir, we don’t know,” shrilled @@ -14861,7 +14842,7 @@ slow utterances. He had a clue! Now that the search had narrowed itself down to Outwood’s house, the rest was comparatively easy. Perhaps Sergeant Collard had actually recognised the boy. -Or reflection he dismissed this as unlikely, for the +On reflection he dismissed this as unlikely, for the sergeant would scarcely have kept a thing like that to himself; but he might very well have seen more of him than he, Downing, had seen. It was only @@ -14881,7 +14862,7 @@ at liberty.</p> <p>Regardless of the claims of digestion, he rushed forth on the trail.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Sergeant Collard lived with his wife and a family of unknown dimensions in the lodge at @@ -14998,8 +14979,8 @@ of the ’ead, if he persisted in making so much noise, put a handkerchief over his face, rested his feet on the table, and slept the sleep of the just.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch48"> -CHAPTER XLVIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch48"> +CHAPTER XLVIII<br><br> THE SLEUTH-HOUND</a></h3> <p>For the Doctor Watsons of this world, @@ -15186,7 +15167,7 @@ there was paint on his boots.</p> <p>Things were moving.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>He resolved to take Adair first. He could get the ground-man’s address from him.</p> @@ -15309,8 +15290,8 @@ This really was beginning to be something like business.</p> hurried across to Outwood’s as fast as he could walk.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch49"> -CHAPTER XLIX<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch49"> +CHAPTER XLIX<br><br> A CHECK</a></h3> <p>The only two members of the house @@ -15589,7 +15570,7 @@ mean that he had been out all the time. It began to look as if the latter solution were the correct one.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>He staggered back with the basket, painfully conscious the while that it was creasing @@ -15716,8 +15697,8 @@ with a wild, fixed stare. Of any suspicion of paint, red or otherwise, it was absolutely and entirely innocent.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch50"> -CHAPTER L<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch50"> +CHAPTER L<br><br> THE DESTROYER OF EVIDENCE</a></h3> <p>The boot became the centre of attraction, @@ -16057,8 +16038,8 @@ that the cupboard was not tampered with.</p> and find Mr. Outwood, and ask him to be good enough to come here for a moment.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch51"> -CHAPTER LI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch51"> +CHAPTER LI<br><br> MAINLY ABOUT BOOTS</a></h3> <p>“Be quick, Smith,” he @@ -16335,8 +16316,8 @@ gruesome burlesque of a nigger minstrel.</p> <p>“Did—you—put—that—boot—there, Smith?” he asked slowly.</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus11"> -<img src="images/jmike11.jpg" alt="“DID—YOU—PUT—THAT—BOOT—THERE, SMITH?”" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus11"> +<img src="images/jmike11.jpg" alt="“DID—YOU—PUT—THAT—BOOT—THERE, SMITH?”"> </a></p> <p>“Yes, sir.”</p> @@ -16389,7 +16370,7 @@ more of it.”</p> him out to a place where there were towels, soap, and sponges.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>When they had gone, Psmith went to the window, and hauled in the string. He felt @@ -16428,8 +16409,8 @@ The odds were that he had forgotten about it already.</p> his hands again, with the feeling that he had done a good day’s work.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch52"> -CHAPTER LII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch52"> +CHAPTER LII<br><br> ON THE TRAIL AGAIN</a></h3> <p>The most massive minds are apt to @@ -16590,8 +16571,8 @@ that moment.</p> <p>When the bell rang at a quarter to eleven, he gathered up his gown, and sped to the headmaster.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch53"> -CHAPTER LIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch53"> +CHAPTER LIII<br><br> THE KETTLE METHOD</a></h3> <p>It was during the interval that day @@ -16936,8 +16917,8 @@ still there.”</p> said Adair. “I should like a word with him if he isn’t busy.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch54"> -CHAPTER LIV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch54"> +CHAPTER LIV<br><br> ADAIR HAS A WORD WITH MIKE</a></h3> <p>Mike, all unconscious of the stirring @@ -17003,7 +16984,7 @@ room.</p> placid course when there has got to be the biggest kind of row. This was one of them.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Psmith, who was leaning against the mantelpiece, reading the serial story in a daily paper @@ -17191,8 +17172,8 @@ want to. How would it be to move on there? Any objections? None? Then shift ho! and let’s get it over.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch55"> -CHAPTER LV<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch55"> +CHAPTER LV<br><br> CLEARING THE AIR</a></h3> <p>Psmith was one of those people who @@ -17515,8 +17496,8 @@ You won’t have to. Adair won’t be there himself. He’s not playing against the M.C.C. He’s sprained his wrist.”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch56"> -CHAPTER LVI<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch56"> +CHAPTER LVI<br><br> IN WHICH PEACE IS DECLARED</a></h3> <p>“Sprained his wrist?” said Mike. @@ -17558,7 +17539,7 @@ back to Outwood’s. “At this rate,” he said to himself, “there won’t be a match at all to-morrow.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>When the weather decides, after behaving well for some weeks, to show what it can do in another @@ -17808,7 +17789,7 @@ Downing or a black-beetle, except that if one was Downing one could tread on the black-beetle. Dash this rain. I got about half a pint down my neck just then. We sha’n’t get a game to-day, -of anything like it. As you’re crocked, +or anything like it. As you’re crocked, I’m not sure that I care much. You’ve been sweating for years to get the match on, and it would be rather rot playing it without you.”</p> @@ -17859,8 +17840,8 @@ What do you say?”</p> <p>“By Jove,” he said at last, “if we only could!”</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch57"> -CHAPTER LVII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch57"> +CHAPTER LVII<br><br> MR. DOWNING MOVES</a></h3> <p>The rain continued without a break @@ -18045,8 +18026,8 @@ and groping, “but—<i>Hullo</i>!”</p> <p>Mike dropped the soot-covered object in the fender, and glared at it.</p> -<p class="center"><a name="illus12"> -<img src="images/jmike12.jpg" alt="MIKE DROPPED THE SOOT-COVERED OBJECT IN THE FENDER" /> +<p class="center"><a id="illus12"> +<img src="images/jmike12.jpg" alt="MIKE DROPPED THE SOOT-COVERED OBJECT IN THE FENDER"> </a></p> <p>“It’s my boot!” he said at last.</p> @@ -18237,8 +18218,8 @@ regrettable painting of your dog, sir.”</p> Psmith, stopping and flicking a piece of fluff off his knee.</p> -<h3 class="chap"><a name="ch58"> -CHAPTER LVIII<br/><br/> +<h3 class="chap"><a id="ch58"> +CHAPTER LVIII<br><br> THE ARTIST CLAIMS HIS WORK</a></h3> <p>The line of action which Psmith had @@ -18668,7 +18649,7 @@ said Psmith meditatively to himself, as he walked downstairs. “By no means a bad old sort. I must drop in from time to time and cultivate him.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Mike and Adair were waiting for him outside the front door.</p> @@ -18711,7 +18692,7 @@ you see him,” said Psmith, “my very best love. It is men like him who make this Merrie England of ours what it is.”</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>“I say, Psmith,” said Mike suddenly, “what really made you tell Downing @@ -18737,8 +18718,8 @@ it was jolly good of you, too.”</p> <p>Psmith moaned.</p> <h3 class="chap"> -<a name="ch59"> -CHAPTER LIX<br/><br/> +<a id="ch59"> +CHAPTER LIX<br><br> SEDLEIGH <i>v</i>. WRYKYN</a></h3> <p>The Wrykyn match was three-parts over, @@ -18952,7 +18933,7 @@ tail, demoralised by the sudden change in the game, collapsed uncompromisingly. Sedleigh won by thirty-five runs with eight minutes in hand.</p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p>Psmith and Mike sat in their study after lock-up, discussing things in general and the @@ -19001,447 +18982,6 @@ Shall we stagger?”</p> <p>They staggered.</p> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIKE ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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