But it certainly had given him a jar, which resulted in rather strained relations with some of his old allies in Parrett's.
Of course nothing could shake his devotion to Parson.

That was secure whatever happened, but towards the other heroes of Parrett's, particularly the seniors, he felt unfriendly.

He conceived he must have been the victim of a plot to prevent his steering the schoolhouse boat.
It was the only reason he could think of for his ill-luck; and though he never tried to argue it out, it was pretty clear to his own mind some one was at the bottom of it.

And if that was so, who more likely than Bloomfield and Game and that lot, who had everything to gain by his being turned out of the rival boat?
This was the state of mind of our aggrieved junior one afternoon not long before the regatta, as he strolled dismally across the "Big" on his way to the river.

Parson was not with him.