Chapter 48

“He’s needed a good ducking for ages!” Dorothy cried, and she and several other girls threw themselves upon him. Over and around him the lithe forms flashed, while the rest of the young people splashed water impartially over all the combatants and cheered them on. In the midst of the battle the signal sounded to end the period of exercise. “Saved by the bell,” Seaton laughed as, almost half drowned, he was allowed to swim ashore. When all had returned to the common room of the observatory and had seated themselves …