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`` Is n't it bad enough to be in a fix like this without being asked hopeless questions ? I 'm sorry , old man , I 've lost my temper ; and as it 's not come back I vote we say no more on the subject at present . '' The evening wore on , and still the truants did not return . At ten o'clock Yorke reported their absence to Mr Wakefield , and Mr Wakefield reported it to the head-master . A similar report reached him from the matron of Mr Forders house with regard to the missing ones there ; and presently , further report was made that Rollitt was not in the school . No one could give any account of their probable whereabouts . Rollitt had been seen going out with a rod early in the day , but no one had seen any of the juniors since last night , when they had prematurely gone to bed in their own dormitory .