empt. "It's
double his right fare. Run quick, and you'll catch him."

Heathcote started to run, shouting meekly, and waving his hand to the
man to stop.

But the man good-humouredly declined the invitation, raising his hat
gallantly to the lady, and putting his tongue into his cheek, as he
touched the horse up into a trot, and rattled out of the square.

Heathcote returned rather sheepishly, and the two friends followed the
lady indoors feeling that their entry into Templeton had been anything
but triumphant.

"The idea!" said the matron, partly to herself and partly to the boys,
"of his landing you and all your luggage on the pavement like that, and
then going off, before I came. He knew well enough I should have seen
he only got his right fare. The wretch!"

The boys did not know at the time, but they discovered it afterwards,
that Mrs Partlett, the matron, had a standing feud with all the cabmen
of Templeton, whose delight it was to enjoy themselves at her expense--a
pastime they could not more effectively achieve than by fleecing her
young charges, so to speak, under her very nose.

"Now," said she, when presently she had recovered her equanimity, "if
you'll unlock these things, you can go and take a walk round the
Quadrangle and look about you, while I unpack. The bell will ring for
new boys' tea in half an hour."

They obeyed, and took a melancholy, but interested stroll round the
great court. They read all the Latin mottoes, and were horrified to
find one or two which they could not translate.

Fancy a Templeton boy not being able to understand his own mottoes!

They read the names on the different masters' doors; and dwelt with
special reverence on the door-plate of Mr Westover, in whose house they
were to reside. They deciphered the carvings on the great gate, and
shuddered as they saw the name of one "Joe Bolt" cut rude and deep
across the forehead of the cherub who stood sentinel at the chapel
portal.

All was wonder in that strange walk. The wonder of untasted
proprietorship. It was _their_ school, _their_ quadrangle, _their_
chapel, _their_ elm-trees; and yet they scarcely liked to inspect them
too closely, or behave themselves towards them too familiarly.

One or two boys were taking solitary strolls, like themselves. They
were new boys too--nearly all of them afflicted with the same
uneasiness, some more, some less.

It was amusing to see the way these new boys held themselves one