“I’m withdrawing in favor of Jack Rover,” he declared in a loud voice, and went around the hall repeating this statement. “I want everybody who voted for me to vote for Jack.”
“Not much we won’t!” cried one cadet. “If you won’t run, we’ll vote for Walt Baxter.”
“We want Bart White to run!” put in another cadet.
“All right, suit yourselves,” said Dan, with a shrug of his shoulders. “Just the same, I’m out of it, so I don’t want anybody to vote for me again.”
It was not long after this that the call came for the next ballot, and once again the cadets filed up and placed their slips of paper in the box. Then the counting began and was soon finished. Both Captain Dale and Professor Brice seemed to be much disturbed over something that had occurred, and the bell for silence rang out sharply.
“This ballot cannot be counted!” declared Captain Dale, in a stern voice. “There are but one hundred and eleven cadets present, but one hundred and fifteen votes have been cast, showing that some person or persons voted more than once. You will immediately prepare new votes and stand in one long line, handing each vote to me as you come up.”
“Gee! what do you know about that?” whispered Randy.
“I wager some of the Werner crowd did that,” remarked his twin.
“How foolish to do anything of that sort,” said Jack. “They ought to have known they couldn’t get away with it.”
“Maybe they thought because Dan Soppinger retired some of the fellows wouldn’t vote,” suggested Fred.