"All Friends of the Ace will take their seats!" he said sharply.

"I'm president of the F.O.

T.A.
now, George Minafer, and don't you forget it! You and Charlie Johnson sit down, because I was elected perfectly fair, and we're goin' to hold a meeting here." "Oh, you are, are you ?" said George skeptically.
Charlie Johnson thought to mollify him.

"Well, didn't we call this meeting just especially because you told us to?
You said yourself we ought to have a kind of celebration because you've got back to town, George, and that's what we're here for now, and everything.

What do you care about being president?
All it amounts to is just calling the roll and--" The president de facto hammered the table.