Prescott
to be our ideal of the man to lead the class in all the paths
of honor?"
Anstey paused for an instant. Then, lowering his voice somewhat,
he continued, with scathing irony:
"_And now you give this best man of our class the silence, and
seek to remove him from the presidency of the class_!"
"It's a shame!" roared another cadet.
There were cheers.
"It is a shame," cried Anstey in a ringing voice. "And now you
seek to deepen the shame by further degrading Prescott, who has
always been the champion of our class. Mr. President, I move
that we lay the motion on the table indefinitely. As soon as
that has been done I shall make another motion, that we remove
the silence from the grand, good fellow who has had it put upon
him."
There were others, however, with nearly Anstey's gift for oratory.
One of them now took the floor, pointing out that the class would
not have rebuked Prescott for having reported Jordan in the tour
of pontoon bridge construction.
"That may have been justified," continued the speaker. "But,
afterwards, Mr. Jordan and Mr. Prescott had words. There must
have been some bitterness in that. That same night Mr. Jordan
was caught and reported by Mr. Prescott, who was not cadet officer
of the day, and who therefore must have deliberately shadowed
Mr. Jordan in order to catch him."
"Prescott did not shadow Mr.
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