CHAPTER TEN.
SPECIAL SERVICE.
My introduction to Low Heath at large next day turned out to be a far less formidable affair than I had anticipated.

I had long since given up the notion that the whole school would rise at my appearance and salute me.

I had even ceased to expect that they would all stare and make remarks.

But I was hardly prepared for the absolute indifference with which I was permitted to answer to my name at "Great register." Not a soul took any notice of me, even when Dr England explained to me publicly that as there were already three other Joneses in the School, I would please answer in future to the title of Jones iv., which I humbly promised to do.

Brown, I was not sorry to hear, was to be designated as Brown iii.