At Wrykyn the fifteenth place in the rugby team is up for grabs, and a tiny gold bat, a charm prized by the cricket eleven, goes missing on the very night someone daubs the mayor’s statue with paint. A secret League begins sending warnings, prefects prowl the dormitories by lantern, and Trevor, the football captain, finds the school’s honour tangled up with his own.
Early Wodehouse from 1904, when the comic genius was sharpening his gift on public-school stories. Download the free EPUB.