The Conscientious Official故事

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The Conscientious Official故事
    WHILE a Division Superintendent of a railway was attending closely
    to his business of placing obstructions on the track and tampering
    with the switches he received word that the President of the road
    was about to discharge him for incompetency.
    "Good Heavens!" he cried; "there are more accidents on my division
    than on all the rest of the line."
    "The President is very particular," said the Man who brought him
    the news; "he thinks the same loss of life might be effected with
    less damage to the company's property."
    "Does he expect me to shoot passengers through the car windows?"
    exclaimed the indignant official, spiking a loose tie across the
    rails.  "Does he take me for an assassin?"