Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 40 LIGHTNING EXPRESS, OE V Railroad, so far as the students are concerned, said the irate and disgusted president of the company. What's the matter now, Tommy? asked the. major, looking up from the newspaper he was reading. They are going to run me off the ticket for directors, growled Tommy, dropping heavily into an arm-chair, as though the end of the world had come, and there was nothing more to live for. They say I have been putting on airs. Perhaps you have, Tommy suggested the major, who, for some reason or other, was disposed to receive the intelligence very good-naturedly. I am the president of the road, and have only done my duty. I'm not going down on my knees to those who are under me. But a certain degree of gentlemanly forbearance and consideration is prudent in business relations, added the major. Now let me hear what the matter is, and we will see what can be done. Between Tommy and myself we told the great man what had transpired at the hall, and announced the vote of the stockholders, relating to the ad- - journed meeting and the dinner. The major actually laughed at the impudence of the boys. He was a politic man when policy paid better .than violence. There was certainly a breeze among the stockholders of the Lake Shore Railroad. Tommy was in peril of losing his office, which would leave the owner of the road without a suitable representative in the board of directors. The movement must be checked, or the connection of the Institute with the road must be dissolved. The major was ready to act. The vote of the stockholders was to be carried out in substance. A free train to Grass Spring was to be run at one o'clock; and, at the invitation of the president, a supper was to be served at the hotel after the meetin...