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Billy Bunter’s Benefit By Frank Richards nephew at school. Not to make the most of such an uncle seemed, to Billy Bunter, a sheer waste. “I say, Harry, old fellow,” began the fat Owl, after giving the captain of the Remove a few minutes to calm down. ‘‘Get out!” “I’m in an awful scrape, old chap,” said Bunter pathetically. “I—I wish now that I’d taken your advice, and—never worked that fat accomplice at all. I am really.” “You benighted owl!” “You might help a fellow out, after all I’ve done for you,” said Bunter. “Look what I did for you when you first came to the school. Don’t you remember your first day here?” “Yes—I remember you borrowed half-a-crown.” “Beast! I mean, do help a chap out, Wharton, when he’s in an awful scrape,” urged Bunter, “That bike’s got to be paid for somehow. You can see that! Look here, you needn’t crash your old jigger, if you don’t want to. Just tell your uncle you’ve smashed it, see?” “What?” gasped Wharton. “That would do just as well, really,” Bunter pointed out. “The old josser wouldn’t want to see the wreck. Just tell him you’ve crashed it, and that you’ve a chance of getting a new jigger, splendid value, for seven guineas. Don’t you think he’d play up?” Harry Wharton laid down his pen again. Bunter eyed him hopefully. “Quelch would let you use his phone,” he said. “You could tell him your uncle’s ill, or something, see? Then you ring him up and tell him about the bike,” Wharton rose to his feet. “That’s right, old chap,” said Bunter, in great relief. “You’re going to help me out” “Yes, I’m going to help you out,” answered Harry, coming across to the door. “Good! Come on,” said Bunter briskly. “No good losing time about it—I don’t know what Parker may do next. Come on—here—I say—gone mad? Wharrer you grabbing me for, you beast? What do you think you’re up to?” yelled Bunter. “Helping you out,” answered Harry. And he helped Bunter out. It was not what Bunter wanted, but it was what he got. With a grasp on a fat neck, the captain of the Remove twirled Billy Bunter through the doorway, and fairly hurled him into the passage. Page 48 of 161
Billy Bunter’s Benefit By Frank Richards There was a loud bump as Bunter landed. There was a louder yell. “Yaroooh!” The door of No. 1 Study banged after Bunter. Harry Wharton returned to his lines—uninterrupted further by Bunter. Bunter did not seem to want any more helping out. CHAPTER XIII A ROW IN THE RAG! “CHEEK! said Coker. Coker of the Fifth was frowning. Something, it was clear, had come between the wind and his nobility. Coker was wrathy. He came into the Rag with knitted brows. A dozen juniors in that apartment looked round at him, not with welcoming looks. The Rag belonged to the Lower School. Senior men could come in, if they liked: but they were not permitted to throw their weight about. Coker came in as if the place belonged to him, which put many backs up at once. Regardless of hostile glances, Coker of the Fifth stared round the room, and crossed it to where a paper was pinned up. That paper was in the hand of William Wibley, President of the Remove Dramatic Society. Coker stared at the paper with an intensifying frown, and ejaculated “Cheek!” So far as Remove fellows could see, there was nothing in that paper to worry Horace Coker, or even to interest him. It was of interest only to the amateur actors of the Remove. REMOVE DRAMATIC SOCIETY, HAMLET. Rehearsal Wednesday 6 p.m. W. Wibley. Members of the R.D.S. had read the notice, and some of them had smiled. Last Wednesday Wibley had fixed rehearsal for three o’clock, and had been left to carry on with it on his lonely own. Perhaps Wib had taken a tip from that experience. Now he had fixed it for after tea. Why Coker was interested in Wibley’s paper was rather a mystery. Why Page 49 of 161
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