But he immediately made himself more obnoxious than ever by going around among the cadets and declaring that he was the only one to be elected to the office of major.
"It's mine by right," he said.

"It wouldn't be fair to elect anybody else." "But Dick Rover and Larry Colby stand almost as high," said one of the cadets.

"Captain Putnam said your average was 96 per cent., while Rover's average was 95 per cent., and Larry Colby's was 94 per cent.

A difference of one or two per cent.

out of a possible hundred isn't much." "I don't care," retorted Lew Flapp, "I ought to be elected major, and that is all there is to it." When Dick was approached he had but little to say.
"I didn't expect to stand so high," he declared.