CHAPTER TWELVE.
BLOOMFIELD IN TRIBULATION.
Bloomfield was beginning to discover already that the new dignity to which he had been raised by his own partisans at Willoughby was anything but a bed of roses.

Vain and easily led as he was, he was not a bad fellow by any means; and when the mutiny against the new captain first began, he flattered himself that by allowing himself to be set up in opposition he was really doing a service to Willoughby, and securing the school against a great many disasters which were certain to ensue if Riddell was left supreme.
But in these lofty hopes he was getting to be a trifle disappointed.

In his own house, of course, especially among those over whom he was wont to rule in athletic sports, his authority was paramount.

But these, after all, constituted only a small section of Willoughby.

Over the rest of the school his influence was strangely overlooked, and even the terrors of his arm failed to bring his subjects to obedience.
It was all very well at first, when the one idea was indignation against the doctor's new appointment.