If there were any present who did not wish to see Dick thus reinstated, they were wise enough to keep their opinions to themselves.
"Mr.Chairman!" shouted another voice over the hubbub.
"Mr.Mallory," replied the chair.
"I move that Messrs.

Holmes and Anstey be appointed a committee of two to go after Mr.Prescott and to bring him here---by force, if necessary." Amid a good deal of laughter this motion, too, was carried.

The two more than willing messengers departed on the run.
"Mr.Chairman!" "Mr.Douglass." The class president rose, waving his right hand for utter silence.
Then, slowly and modestly, he said: "I have greatly enjoyed the honor of being president of this class.
But I can no longer take pride in holding this office, for, in common with the rest of you, I realize that I secured the honor through a misapprehension.

I therefore tender my resignation as president of the first class." "No, no, no!" shouted several.
"Thank you, gentlemen," replied Douglass with feeling.

"I appreciate it all, but I feel that I have no longer any right to the presidency of the class, and I therefore resign it---renounce it! Gentlemen, comrades, will you do me the favor of accepting my resignation at once ?" "On account of the form in which the request is put," said Durville, as soon as he had secured the chair's recognition, "I move that our president's resignation be accepted in the same good faith in which it is offered." "Thank you, Durry, old man!" called Douglass in a low voice.
A seconder was promptly obtained.