"Have I made any demands?" said Crazy, coolly.
"Come now—yes or no!"
"Are you handing it to me?"
A fresh storm of indignation was interrupted by the sudden tumultuous reappearance of Wash Simmons, shouting:
"Fellows, Butsey White and the Green have sold out to the Mugwumps!"
Crazy Opdyke sat down again.
A long silence succeeded. Then Cheyenne Baxter, mutely interrogating every glance, rose and said:
"Crazy, you win. The chairmanship is yours. Will you take it on a silver platter or with a bouquet of roses?"
That evening, when Hickey went to report to Ernest Garrison Baldwin, he found that civic reformer in a somewhat perturbed condition.