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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: CHAPTER II. ANTECEDENTAL. '' Come in!'' sounded a voice, as Dr. Cortlandt and Dick Ayrault tapped at the door of the President of the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company's private office on the morning of the 21st of June, A. D. 2000. Col. Bearwarden sat at his capacious desk, the shadows passing over his face as April clouds flit across the sun. He was a handsome man, and young for the important post he filled—being scarcely forty—a graduate of West Point, with great executive ability, and a wonderful engineer. '' Sit down, chappies,'' said he; '' we have still a half hour before I begin to read the report I am to make to the stockholders and representatives of all the governments, which is now ready. I know you smoke,'' passing a box of Havanas to the professor. Prof. Cortlandt, LL. D., United States Governor) meiit expert, appointed to examine the company's calculations, was about fifty, with a high forehead, greyish hair, and quick, grey eyes, a geologist and astronomer, and altogether as able a man, in his own way, as Col. Eearwarden in his. Eichard Ayrault, a large stockholder and one of the honorary vice- presidents in the company, was about thirty, a university man, by nature a scientist, and engaged to one of the prettiest society girls, who was then a student at Vassar, in the beautiful town of Pough- keepsie. '' Knowing the way you carry things in your mind, and the difficulty of rattling you,'' said Cort- landt, '' we have dropped in on our way to hear the speech that I would not miss for a fortune. Let us know if we bother you.'' '' Impossible, dear boy,'' replied the president genially. '' Since I survived your official investigations, I think I deserve some of your attention informally.'' '' Here are my final examinations,'' said Cort- landt, handing Bearwar...