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"Some one must stop this row!" said Bloomfield to his companions as they passed. "The doctor will be down on us." "You stop it, Bloomfield!" said Wibberly; "they'll shut up for you." This was all the unfortunate Riddell heard, except that in a few moments the uproar from the Fourth Form room suddenly ceased, and was not renewed.
"But you don't mean to say," said Strutter, "the Premier," "that you think any one of those fellows would do such a thing as cut our rope?" "I don't know," said Wibberly. "I don't see why they shouldn't. I don't fancy they'd stick at a trifle, the cads!" "If Gilks had been in the boat," said another, "I could have believed it of him, but he was as anxious for us to win as we were ourselves."
And therefore, however hard he worked this term, he would never rise above eighteenth classic in the eyes of the school, and that was not well, he would have liked to be a little higher for the sake of Willoughby! The outlook was not encouraging. Even Wibberly, the toady, and Silk, the Welcher, were better men than he was at classics.
Some who had been waiting for the boats at the winning-post had only just heard the news, and came in red-hot with excitement to learn particulars. "It's all a vile dodge," howled Wibberly, "to get their boat to the head of the river." "I'll bet anything the precious captain's at the bottom of it," shouted another. "He'd stick at nothing, I know."
"You see," said Bloomfield, who, despite his protestations, was evidently not displeased at the notion of his possible honours, "I don't profess to be much of a swell in school; but I don't know I fancy I could keep order rather better than he could. The fellows know me." "They ought to, if they don't," said Wibberly, who was a toady. "Fancy Riddell having to lick a junior," said Game.
So that he was generally considered, and considered himself to be, quite as much of a Parrett as a "schoolhouser." "So you are not down looking at the little boys?" said Wibberly. "No," said Gilks. "Awful rot," said Wibberly, "making all that fuss about them!" "Pleases them and doesn't hurt us," replied Gilks. "In my opinion it's all a bit of vanity on the part of Riddell.
"I don't think so." "I suppose you'd like to make out that Riddell is made captain because he's the best man for the place, and not because the doctor always favours the schoolhouse," snarled Wibberly. "He's made captain because he's head classic," replied Fairbairn; "it has nothing to do with his being a schoolhouse fellow."
"Tell him it's jolly gross conduct," cried a voice at the door, followed immediately by Telson, who, contrary to all rules, had slipped across to pay a friendly visit. He was welcomed with the usual rejoicing, and duly installed at the festive board. "It's all right if I am caught," said he. "Gilks sent me a message to Wibberly, and I just dropped in here on the way.
"Oh, look here!" cried Wibberly, quite convinced now that the rumours were no joke. "We'll go back, and we'll do lines for you, but for goodness' sake don't send us up to him." "We had no warning, you see," said Stutter, "that things were changed." "Go back, then," said Bloomfield, "and make up your minds unless you keep rules you'll get treated just the same as any other rowdies.
"No wonder; he and his friend Silk have been betting right and left on us, I hear." "Well, I suppose there's bound to be a new race," said Strutter. "I don't know," replied Wibberly. "I'd be just as well pleased if Bloomfield refused. The vile cheats!" Bloomfield, be it said to his credit, was no party to these reckless accusations.
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