two o'clock
People I never heard of , the kind of bird that floats in and out on the train and probably does n't know there is a Student-Body with troubles of its own ; digs , crawling out into the light , blinking away at the line ; Laboratory fiends in squads , actually losing twenty minutes of precious credit , -- the darndest crowd of resurrected stiffs the Quad ever saw , strung out from the registrar 's office to the polls , every last one of them squeezing a ballot properly marked ahead , all looking as if it were a conferring of degrees , serious as hell , you know , and the eye of the Brown girl or of one of her crowd fastened on each of them . Poor Castleton , he was a goner ! His heelers got up against this line of sphinxes and fell back , done up . It was two o'clock and after ; still the vote rolled up . At two-thirty they closed shop , and Pellams and I fell on each other 's chests behind a pillar , and busted at the josh on ourselves . `` Then we went over to get the figures of our triumph . ` Boggs , 402 ; Castleton , 375 , ' and the biggest vote in the history of the office .