It took a long time.

I see the Conservatives and Progressives nudgin' each other and winkin' back and forth.

Five minutes, then ten, then fifteen.
"And all of a sudden the biggest row bu'st loose in that amusement room that ever you heard.

Rattlety--bang! Biff! Smash! The door flew open, and in rolled Bassett and Ellis, all legs and arms.

Gabe and some of the rest hauled 'em apart and held 'em so, but the language them two hove at each other was enough to bring down a judgment.
"'Gentlemen! gentlemen!' hollers poor Gabe.