"Mr. Chairman!" shouted another voice over the hubbub.
"Mr. Mallory," replied the chair.
"I move that Messrs. Holmes and Anstey be appointed a committee
of two to go after Mr. Prescott and to bring him here---by force,
if necessary."
Amid a good deal of laughter this motion, too, was carried. The
two more than willing messengers departed on the run.
"Mr. Chairman!"
"Mr. Douglass."
The class president rose, waving his right hand for utter silence.
Then, slowly and modestly, he said:
"I have greatly enjoyed the honor of being president of this class.
But I can no longer take pride in holding this office, for, in
common with the rest of you, I realize that I secured the honor
through a misapprehension. I therefore tender my resignation
as president of the first class."
"No, no, no!" shouted several.
"Thank you, gentlemen," replied Douglass with feeling. "I appreciate
it all, but I feel that I have no longer any right to the presidency
of the class, and I therefore resign it---renounce it! Gentlemen,
comrades, will you do me the favor of accepting my resignation at
once?"
"On account of the form in which the request is put," said Durville,
as soon as he had secured the chair's recognition, "I move that
our president's resignation be accepted in the same good faith in
which it is offered."
"Thank you, Durry, old man!" called Douglass in a low voice.
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