No wonder you're a happy man." A pause.

"As to the other matter, I'll see.

No doubt I can stop this through the courts, if you push me to it." "Not without giving us a chance to explain," replied Scarborough; "and the higher courts may agree with us that we ought to defend the university's rights against your railway friends and your 'labor' men whom you sent down here to cause the strike." "Rubbish!" said Whitney; and he laughed.

"Rubbish!" he repeated.

"It's not a matter either for argument or for anger." He took his hat, made a slight ironic bow, and was gone.
He spent the next morning with Arthur, discussing the main phases of the business, with little said by either about the vast new project.