Why, if he got drowned in a river he'd float upstream just to be contrary.
In the course of time, the new board was seated.

For the first few months of its term, it was occupied in clearing up the business left over by the old board and in the completion of the railway map.

But now, the decks were cleared.

It was about to address itself to the consideration of a revision of the tariff for the carriage of grain between the San Joaquin Valley and tide-water.
Both Lyman and Darrell were pledged to an average ten per cent.

cut of the grain rates throughout the entire State.
The typewriter returned with the letters for Lyman to sign, and he put away the map and took up his morning's routine of business, wondering, the while, what would become of his practice during the time he was involved in the business of the Ranchers' Railroad Commission.
But towards noon, at the moment when Lyman was drawing off a glass of mineral water from the siphon that stood at his elbow, there was an interruption.