"What are you looking so glum about this morning, Stumpy?" asked Ned Wilding as he greeted his chum, Fenn Masterson, otherwise known as "Stumpy" because of his short, stout figure. "Haven't you got your lessons, or are you going to be expelled?" "I'm not to be expelled but some one else is, Ned." "What's that? Some one going to be expelled?" asked Bart Keene, coming up in time to hear what Fenn said. "John Newton is," replied Stumpy.