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"Are you ready for the question?"

"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!