Of this latter sum Carnegie received $25,000,000, Phipps $5,500,000, Frick $2,600,000, and Schwab $1,300,000.
And Carnegie's little group could see no limit to the growth of their business and the expansion of their personal fortunes.

Yet at that very moment Carnegie was planning to play the part of a Charles V with the large empire which he had pieced together--to abdicate his throne, retire from business life, and spend his remaining days in quiet.
Many influences were impelling him to this decision.

His triumph, stupendous as it had been, also had had its alloy of sorrow.

Indeed this little Scotsman, now at the crowning of his glory, was one of the loneliest figures in the world.

Practically all the forty men with whom he had been closely associated had vanished from the scene.