by one of the fives-courts, and Renford, coming upon the fight while on his way to feed the ferrets, agrees to keep time. O'Hara wins the fight, and it is also revealed that Rand-Brown is leaving the school since he was one of the students caught smoking. Political protesters repeat the tarring and feathering of Briggs's statue, apparently inspired by O'Hara and Moriarty's initiative. Sir Eustace Briggs was suspicious of the school's students after hearing that a tiny gold bat was found near the statue, and given to a student who claimed it was his property, but now thinks the protesters tarred and feathered the statue the first time too. Trevor also denies to Sir Eustace Briggs that it was his bat. Choosing his words carefully, he claims that his bat had been in a drawer nearly all the term. Characters Trevor, a school prefect and head of Donaldson's House, member of the First Eleven and captain of the First Fifteen, also appears in The White Feather, Mike, "The Reformation of Study Sixteen", and "The Last Place" Clowes, a close friend of Trevor in Donaldson's, also appears The White Feather, Mike, "The Reformation of Study Sixteen", and "The Last Place" O'Hara, an Irish student and light-weight boxer in Dexter's House, also appears in The White Feather, "Jackson's Extra", and "The Deserter" Moriarty, another Irish student in Dexter's who is also a boxer Rand-Brown, a member of Seymour's House and the school's Second Fifteen rugby football team who wants to be in the First Fifteen Barry, an enthusiastic rugby player initially in the Third Fifteen, shares a study with his friend M'Todd in Seymour's, also appears in The White Feather and "An Affair of Boats" Renford, a fourteen-year-old member of Seymour's House who is Milton's fag and looks after two ferrets with Harvey, also appears in The White Feather and "An Affair of Boats" Harvey, a member of Seymour's who keeps a pair of ferrets named Sir Nigel and Sherlock Holmes with help from his friend Renford Leather-Twigg, known as "Shoeblossom", an unpredictable troublemaker in Seymour's, also appears in Mike and "An Affair of Boats" Ruthven, a member of Dexter's who is an acquaintance of Trevor but disliked by Clowes, also appears in "An International Affair" Mill, an unpopular prefect in Seymour's, also appears in "An Affair of Boats" Milton, the head of Seymour's, also appears in "The Last Place" and