believe Scarborough has put up a job on us. If I can't gain time
we're beat." And he sprang to his feet, his face white. In a
voice which he struggled in vain to keep to his wonted affected
indifferent drawl, he said: "Mr. Chairman, I move you, sir,
that we adjourn." As he was bending to sit his ready lieutenant
seconded the motion.

"Mr. Chairman!" It was an excited voice from the rear of the
hall--the voice of a tall, lank, sallow man of perhaps
thirty-five. "What right," he shouted shrilly, "has this Mr.
Pierson to come here and make that there motion? He ain't never
seen here except on election nights. He----"

The chairman rapped sharply.

"Motion to adjourn not debatable," he said, and then mumbled
rapidly: "The question's the motion to adjourn. All in favor
say Aye--all opposed, No--the ayes seem to have it--the ayes
have----"

"Mr. Chairman; I call for a count of the ayes and noes!" It
was Scarborough, standing, completely self-possessed. His voice
was not raised but it vibrated through that room, vibrated
through those three hundred intensely excited young men.

The chairman--Waller, a Zeta Rho, of the Sigma Alpha
combination--knew that Pierson was scowling a command to him to
override the rules and adjourn the meeting; but he could not take
his eyes from Scarborough's, dared not disobey Scarborough's
imperious look. "A count of the ayes and noes is called for,"