"Consent," exclaimed Barnes, hurriedly.
Steps could be heard in the outer hall, and Margrave looked at his watch.
"I move that we adjourn to meet at my office at two o'clock, to conclude the election of officers."
Some one was shaking the outside door.
"Can't we finish now?" asked Horton, who had been promised the vice-presidency. He and the other officers were afraid of Margrave, and were reluctant to have their own elections deferred even for a few hours.
There was another knock at the door.
"At two o'clock," said Margrave decisively, as the knocking at the door was renewed. He gathered up his certificates and prepared to leave.
Saxton, standing with Fenton in the dark hall, referred to his watch again.
"Shall we go in?" he asked.