CHAPTER XIII.
THE ELECTIONS.
Thurston's resignation, as might have been expected, gave rise to a considerable amount of excitement and conflicting opinion.

Nearly every boy in the school saw clearly that he was both unworthy and unfitted to fulfil the duties of a prefect, but the peculiar circumstances under which he had, as "Rats" put it, been given "notice to quit," caused a large number of his schoolfellows to side with him, and condemn the action of the captain.

Only a few of the general public knew exactly what the row had been.

The Sixth Form authorities, refusing to be catechized, would answer no questions; while the other side took good care to spread abroad a very one-sided account of the affair.
The Wraxby match was fresh in everybody's mind.

"Awfully hard lines I call it," said the cricketers.