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Rh room, where the Crown adherents were massed, but it was loud and enthusiastic; and when boys began shouting, "Speech! Speech!" Harry rose, blushing, and bowed.

Mr. Eldredge resigned the chair to him, and Harry presided for the rest of the meeting with a confiding shyness and embarrassment that were rather winning. Frank Windsor was elected secretary and Dick Judson was elected treasurer; and then the meeting adjourned.

Boys crowded up on the platform to congratulate Harry, and flocked about him as he made his way out of the hall. Rupert Ormsby was among them, and gave his hand the heartiest grip of any one; and Harry said, "Thanks, old man!" very feelingly.

He sat up late in the schoolroom that evening, writing to his mother and to Clark of his election. The letter to Clark would follow him half-way round the world, and reach him probably somewhere in India. Harry knew that it would please his brother, wherever he might be.

When Harry was mounting the stairs of the