"How would Tom Selden do for Secretary?" asked Kate.
"Oh, he isn't careful enough," answered Harry. "I think you ought to be Secretary. You can write well, and you'll keep everything in order."
"Very well," said Kate, "I'll be Secretary."
"I think," said Harry, "that we have now about all the officers we want, excepting, of course, an Engineer, and I shall be Engineer; for I have planned out the whole thing already."
"I didn't know there was to be an engine," said Kate.
"Engine!" exclaimed Harry, laughing. "That's a good one! I don't mean an engineer of a steam-engine. What we want is a Civil Engineer; a man who lays out railroad lines and all that kind of thing. I'm not right sure that a Civil Engineer does plan out telegraph lines; but it don't make any difference what we call the officer. He'll have to attend to putting up the line."
"And do you think you can do it?" said Kate, "I should suppose it would be a good deal harder to be Engineer than to be President."
"Yes, I suppose it will; but I've studied the matter. I've watched the men putting up new wires at Hetertown, and Mr. Lyons told me all he knew about it. It's easy enough. Very different from building a railroad."
"It must be a good deal safer to build a railroad, though," said Kate. "You don't have to go so high up in the air."
"You're a little goose," said Harry, laughing at her again.