'Oh, I say, Plunkett,' said Vaughan, when they met in the study after
prayers, 'I wanted to see you. Where have you been?'
'I have been in the junior study. Where did you think I had been?'
'Oh.'
'Do you doubt my word?'
'I've the most exaggerated respect for your word, but you weren't in
the junior study at five to nine.'
'No, I went up to my dormitory about that time. You seem remarkably
interested in my movements.'
'Only wanted to see you about the House gym. team. You might shove up
the list tonight. Haynes, Jarvis, and myself.'
'Very well.'
'I didn't say anything to him,' said Vaughan to Dallas as they were
going to their dormitories, 'but, you know, there's something jolly
fishy about the Mutual. That door wasn't unlocked when we saw him
outside. I unlocked it myself. Seems to me the Mutual's been having a
little private bust of his own on the quiet.'
'That's rum. He might have been out by the front way to see one of the
beaks, though.'
'Well, even then he would be breaking rules. You aren't allowed to go
out after lock-up without House beak's leave.
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