Should or should he not entertain this offer?
Here was a chance to realize quickly by selling out to the old companies.

Only Schryhart, not himself, would be taking the big end in this manipulative deal.

Whereas if he waited--even if Schryhart managed to combine the three old companies into one--he might be able to force better terms.

He was not sure.

Finally he asked, "How much stock of the new company would be left in your hands--or in the hands of the organizing group--after each of the old and new companies had been provided for on this basis ?" "Oh, possibly thirty-five or forty per cent.