"What can we do?"
"I have a right to consider all the fellows that voted as members of the society. The fact of their voting makes them members."
"I don't know anything about that."
"It's clear enough to me, and in a talk I had with Shuffles just now, he didn't pretend to deny the correctness of my position."
"If he agrees, it must be all right," laughed Paul.
"If you had understood the matter, for whom should you have voted?"
"I don't know? but after the trick Shuffles played off upon you, I should not vote for him."
"Very well; then you can change your vote."
"How shall I change it?"
"Go to Shuffles; and the other eight fellows who voted in the dark must do the same."