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At the end of a week he went back again , with the warning that he would have to show more than he had been showing if he was to stay there . It was while he was still decorating the bench , however , that Steve again fell foul of him . The unseasonably warm weather held well into the middle of October , and it was one evening a day or two after Sawyer 's removal from the regular line-up that Steve and Tom , rather fagged from an hour 's study in a close room , picked up Roy and Harry and went over to the gymnasium for a dip in the tank . The swimming tank was a favourite resort of the younger fellows between eight and ten at night , but , for some reason , the older boys seldom appeared there in the evenings . To-night , though , when the quartette , having changed into swimming trunks , reached the tank they found five upper-class fellows swinging their bare legs from the side of the pool and amusing themselves by criticising the antics of the youngsters . There was Eric Sawyer , Jay Fowler and three others whom neither Steve nor Tom knew save by sight . The tank was well populated , for the warmth of the evening made the thought of cool water very agreeable , and there was much noise and splashing going on .