“Seconded!”
“You have heard the motion,” droned Whipple. “All those in favor will so signify by saying ‘Aye.’ Contrary, ‘No.’ Moved and carried. I will appoint the presidents of the senior and upper middle classes and Mr. Turner to the committee, three in all. Is it the sense of this meeting that your committee is to report to it at a subsequent meeting, or is it to have authority to proceed with the matter if it decides that the scheme is a good one?”
“Full authority, Mr. Chairman!” “Let ’em go ahead with it!” “Sure! That’s what we want. Let’s have action!”
“Is there any other business? Then I declare the meeting adjourned!”
Whipple captured Ned on the way out. “We’d better get together right away on this, Turner,” he said. “Can you meet Cooper and me at my room to-morrow at twelve?”
Ned agreed, and he and Laurie and Lee went on. “What I’d like to know,” remarked Laurie, after a moment’s silence, “is how you’re going to have a fête in a place like this. The weather’s too cold for it.”
“Maybe it will be warmer,” answered Ned, cheerfully. “Besides, we don’t have to have it outdoors.”
“It wouldn’t be a fête if you didn’t,” sniffed the other.
“Well, what’s the difference? Call it anything you like. The big thing is to get the money.”
“You had your cheek with you to talk the way you did,” chuckled Laurie.