But as soon as the malcontents discovered that they had raised one more tyrant over their own heads, they began to find out their mistake, and did their best to correct it.

They argued that as they had elected Bloomfield themselves they weren't bound to obey him unless they chose; and when it came to the point of having to give up their own will in obedience to his, they remembered he was not the real captain of Willoughby and had no right to order them! So poor Bloomfield did not find things quite as comfortable as he had expected.
One of the first rebuffs he got was administered by no less stately a hand than that of Master Telson of the schoolhouse.
This young gentleman ever since his last unfortunate expedition in "Noah's Ark" had been somewhat under a cloud.

His forced absence from the river for a whole week had preyed upon his spirits.

And when at the end of that period he did revisit his old haunts, armed with a captain's permit, it was only to discover that whatever small chance he ever had of coxing his house's boat at the coming regatta, had vanished under the new arrangement which had brought Riddell into the boat.
It is only fair to say that this disappointment, keen as it was, had no effect on his loyalty.

He was as ready as ever to fight any one who spoke ill of the schoolhouse.