Skimpole's Snapshot

Herbert Skimpole, 'scientist' of St. Jim's, had no camera. But that did not deter him from entering the Rylcombe Gazette's Photographic Competition he simply walked into the study of Tom Merry & Co., and, since there was no one there, he helped him- self to Harry Manners' treasured camera, and went to take a prize- winning 'snap.' But the snapshot taken by the learned junior was no ordinary one. It was the sort of picture that would have been dynamite if it reached the wrong hands more dangerous even than Skimpole's scientific experiments. For days, a bullying prefect of the Sixth Form lived in fear of expulsion, in the shadow of Skimpole's Snapshot, and St. Jim's boys were amazed to see a prefect meekly taking orders from a Shell junior! And the situation would certainly have ended in disaster if Tom Merry had not intervened and if Cardew the Cad had not played a clever trick on D'Arcy.