A. Between nine and eleven months—about nine months altogether.
Q. Didn't you think you were managing that western road pretty successfully, with the experience you had?
A. I didn't claim credit for it. If I had not had the men I had, I could not have done it.
Q. But were you not the man who run it? You laid out your plans the same as a military officer, and your men carried them out?
A. After Mr. Lang put the road in my possession, I tried to do the best I could for it—for the stockholders.
Q. Did you have the interests of the stockholders at heart? Did you take into consideration their interests more than the interests of the employés of the road—the men you represented?
A. I thought the stockholders were in about the same pew with us. I thought they were about swamped, and that we were.
Q. But I mean the question?
A. I was looking at the stockholders interests when I turned over all the money, and I wanted the boys to get back their ten per cent. I don't know that I made any distinction between them.
Q. But answer my question?