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merchants, arguing heatedly.[Pg 35] Lorenzo Menardes, the distiller, and
Lester Dawes, the banker, and Morgan Gatworth, the lawyer, talking to
Judge Ledue. About four times as many as had been in Fawzi's office the
afternoon before.

Finally, everybody was shepherded into a faculty conference room; there
was a long table, and a shorter one T-wise at one end. Fawzi and Kellton
conducted them to this. Both of them were trying to preside, Kellton
because it was his Academy, and Fawzi ex officio as mayor and
professional leading citizen, and because he had come to regard Merlin
as his own private project. After everybody else was seated, the two
rival chairmen-presumptive remained on their feet. Fawzi was saying,
"Let's come to order; we must conduct this meeting regularly," and
Kellton was saying, "Gentlemen, please; let me have your attention."

If either of them took the chair, the other would resent it. Conn got to
his feet again.