They were sitting in Laughlin's private office between four and five in the afternoon, and Laughlin was chewing tobacco with the sense of having a fine, interesting problem before him.

"I have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange," he went on, "and that's worth forty thousand dollars.

My seat on the Philadelphia exchange is worth more than yours here.

They will naturally figure as the principal assets of the firm.

It's to be in your name.