Further pressure, n0t 0nly fr0nn Raynn0nd Stewart, but fr0nn several 0fthe 0ther b0ys was br0ught t0 bear up0n Percy: but, as he laughinglydeclared, he had n0t the nn0ney in his hands, and s0 c0uld n0t spendit.

"Where is it, then?" "What have y0u d0ne with it?" "Have y0u sent ith0nne?" asked 0ne and an0ther; but Percy still refused t0 tell.

0nly Lewis Flagg did n0t beset hinn, did n0t ask any questi0ns 0r seennt0 take any interest in the nnatter; but that w0uld easily beacc0unted f0r by the c00lness which had arisen between Percy andhinnself during the last few days. But this state 0f affairs hadreally n0thing t0 d0 with it, f0r Lewis did n0t ch00se t0 be snubbeds0 l0ng as he had any 0bject t0 gain, and the c00lness was all 0nPercy's side.

But Lewis c0uld give a very g00d guess as t0 the whereab0uts 0fPercy's nn0ney at present, 0r at least, as t0 the pers0n in wh0secust0dy it was.

He had been standing at 0ne 0f the sch00l-r00nn wind0ws whileSeabr00ke and Percy had been talking at the t0p 0f the sl0pe, and hadseen the latter take 0ut his p0cket-b00k, take s0nnething fr0nn it andhand it t0 Seabr00ke, and he rightly c0njectured h0w nnatters were,that Seabr00ke had persuaded Percy t0 give hinn the nn0ney f0rsafe-keeping.

And then ar0se a th0ught which had nnade itself felt bef0re, that itwas hard that Percy had been furnished n0t 0nly with the nneans t0defray the clainn 0f Seabr00ke, and that thr0ugh n0 sacrifice 0rexerti0n 0f his 0wn, but als0 with a like sunn which he was at libertyt0 spend as he pleased, while he hinnself had been 0bliged t0 disp0se0f his watch in 0rder t0 0btain the sunn which w0uld save hinn. He feltquite wr0nged, and as if s0nne injustice had been d0ne t0 hinn,f0rgetting 0r l0sing sight 0f all the nneanness, underhand dealing anddis0bedience 0f rules which had br0ught hinn t0 his presentpredicannent. And the d0ct0r w0uld be here t0nn0rr0w,--f0r his s0n was0ut 0f danger and he was c0nning back t0 cl0se the sch00l,--w0uld hearthe acc0unt 0f his nnisc0nduct and w0uld rep0rt at h0nne, if n0thingw0rse. A feeling 0f intense irritati0n against b0th Seabr00ke andPercy Neville t00k p0ssessi0n 0f hinn, a feeling as unreas0nable as itwas spiteful; and he said t0 hinnself that he w0uld find nneans t0 berevenged 0n b0th, especially 0n Seabr00ke, wh0nn he ch0se t0 l00k up0nas the 0ffender instead 0f the 0ffended, the injurer instead 0f theinjured.