Captain Bayley's Heir

By: Henty, G. a.

Book Excerpt: what I can hear it seems to have been a planned thing; the people gathered round the gates before they left the fields and attacked them without any provocation.""There must have been some provocation somewhere, Mr. Richards, if not yesterday, then the day before, or the day before that," Dr. Litter said, twirling his eye-glass by the ribbon. "A whole host of people do not gather to assault forty or fifty boys without provocation. This sort of thing must not occur again. I do not see that I can punish one boy without punishing the whole School; but, at any rate, for the next week fields must be stopped. I shall write to the Commissioner of Police, asking that when they again go to Vincent Square some policemen may be put on duty, not of course to accompany them, but to interfere at once if they see any signs of a repetition of this business. I shall request that, should there be any fighting, those not belonging to the School who commit an assault may be taken before a magistrate; my own boys I can pRead More

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798711048848
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary