9/21 He has a lot of money." "Is it true, as the papers say, that he failed for a million in Philadelphia in 1871 ?" "In so far as I know, it is." "Well, was he in the penitentiary down there ?" "I think so--yes. I believe it was for nothing really criminal, though. There appears to have been some political-financial mix-up, from all I can learn." "And is he only forty, as the papers say ?" "About that, I should judge. Why ?" "Oh, this scheme of his looks rather pretentious to me--holding up the old gas companies here. Do you suppose he'll manage to do it ?" "I don't know that. |