ing him. Dan was gratified over the showing
he had made, but he did not want the position. Now he came up and
announced that he was going to withdraw.

"I'm withdrawing in favor of Jack Rover," he declared in a loud voice,
and went around the hall repeating this statement. "I want everybody
who voted for me to vote for Jack."

"Not much we won't!" cried one cadet. "If you won't run, we'll vote
for Walt Baxter."

"We want Bart White to run!" put in another cadet.

"All right, suit yourselves," said Dan, with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Just the same, I'm out of it, so I don't want anybody to vote for me
again."

It was not long after this that the call came for the next ballot, and
once again the cadets filed up and placed their slips of paper in the
box. Then the counting began and was soon finished. Both Captain Dale
and Professor Brice seemed to be much disturbed over something that
had occurred, and the bell for silence rang out sharply.

"This ballot cannot be counted!" declared Captain Dale, in a stern
voice. "There are but one hundred and eleven cadets present, but one
hundred and fifteen votes have been cast, showing that some person or
persons voted more than once. You will immediately prepare new votes
and stand in one long line, handing each vote to me as you come up."

"Gee! what do you know about that?" whispered Randy.

"I wager some of the Werner crowd did that," remarked his twin.

"How foolish to do anything of that sort," said Jack. "They ought to
have known they couldn't get away with it."

"Maybe they thought because Dan Soppinger retired some of the fellows
wouldn't vote," suggested Fred.

"Well, if they thought that, they got left."

The next vote proved correct so far as numbers went, and once more the
figures were announced:

"Number necessary to a choice 56
Jack Rover has 54
Gabe Werner has 30
Walter Baxter has 20
Bart White has 7."

"Hurrah, Jack, you're going up!" cried Fred enthusiastically.

"You're only two votes shy of a choice," said Randy.

"I guess you would have been elected if Bart White hadn't gone on the
ticket," returned Spouter.

At that moment both Walt Baxter and Bart White came rushing up to
Jack.

"I'm going to retire in your favor, Jack," said Walt.

"So am I," declared Bart.

"Well, now, I didn't expect this," stammered Jack, hardly knowing what
to