towards the end of the evening

Then the Jekyll and Hyde business completed itself. He suppressed hispersonal feelings, and became the cricket captain again. 　　It was the cricket captain who, towards the end of the evening, cameupon Firby-Smith and Mike parting at the conclusion of a conversation. 　　That it had not been a friendly conversation would have been evidentto the most casual observer from the manner in which Mike stumped off,swinging his cricket-bag as if it were a weapon of offence. There aremany kinds of walk. Mike's was the walk of the Overwrought Soul. 　　"What's up?" inquired Burgess. 　　"Young Jackson, do you mean? Oh, nothing. I was only telling him thatthere was going to be house-fielding to-morrow before breakfast.""Didn't he like the idea?""He's jolly well got to like it," said the Gazeka, as who should say,"This way for Iron Wills." "The frightful kid cut it this morning. 　　There'll be worse trouble if he does it again."There was, it may be mentioned, not an ounce of malice in the headof Wain's house. That by telling the captain of cricket that Mike hadshirked fielding-practice he might injure the latter's prospects of afirst eleven cap simply did not occur to him. That Burgess would feel,on being told of Mike's slackness, much as a bishop might feel if heheard that a favourite curate had become a Mahometan or a Mumbo-Jumboist,did not enter his mind. All he considered was that the story of hisdealings with Mike showed him, Firby-Smith, in the favourable anddashing character of the fellow-who-will-stand-no-nonsense, a sortof Captain Kettle on dry land, in fact; and so he proceeded to tellit in detail. 　　Burgess parted with him with the firm conviction that Mike was a youngslacker. Keenness in fielding was a fetish with him; and to cutpractice struck him as a crime. 　　He felt that he had been deceived in Mike. 　　* * * * *When, therefore, one takes into consideration his private bias infavour of Bob, and adds to it the reaction caused by this suddenunmasking of Mike, it is not surprising that the list Burgess made outthat night before he went to bed differed in an important respect fromthe one he had intended to write before school.

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