"it's a clique, and there ought not to be any clique in a school like this. You fellows in the Crown think that you're the aristocracy; you flock by yourselves and manage things so that you run the school. I'm not saying you don't run it pretty well, but I object to the system."
"The fellows in the Crown are your friends—the fellows you know and like best—the best fellows in the school," pleaded Harry. "I should think you'd like to join them."
"There!" exclaimed Rupert. "Just as if a fellow outside of your society can't be an intimate friend of fellows in it! That's just what I object to."
"No, I don't mean that. I don't think it's true."
"Besides," continued Rupert, "I'm not so sure that you have the best fellows in the Crown. I don't believe Joe Herrick's a very good sort of fellow."
"Herrick's improved a lot since he's been a member," declared Harry, "and we want to
