“All right!” “Yes, let her go!” “Shoot, Officer!”
“All in favor will say Aye!... Contrary.... It is a vote!... Is there ... further business ... meeting?” Sears’ voice was only heard at intervals. “If not ... adjourn ... in order.”
“Move we adjourn!” shouted Guy Felker.
“Second it!”
“Moved and seconded that the meeting now adjourn,” mumbled Sears. “All those....”
What followed was lost in the scraping of settees and the jumble of talk and laughter. The indignation meeting was at an end!
CHAPTER XVIII
MR. GRAYSON IS SURPRISED
Dick’s retirement from the hall took on the nature of an ovation. Many of the fellows pushed their way across to shake hands with him, to tell him “It was hot stuff, Dick!” to form a laughing, excited escort for him to the door. Louise Brent met him on the way out. “It was splendid!” she declared warmly. “I’m so glad, Dick!” Toby Sears, too, reached him before he had left the hall, and slapped him on the shoulder. “That was good plain talk, Dick, and we needed it,” he said.
Dick went off in the runabout with George Cotner, while Gordon and Morris, waiting on the steps for the crowd to leave, reviewed events with much chuckling. “He did just the right thing,” said Gordon. “If he had been apologetic and tried to explain things and made promises they’d have roasted him and probably voted to take the matter to the Committee.”