"If it were my case, Ben, I'd be yelling for help as long as I had breath in my body." "It's very simple," explained Courtney.

"I imagined that a big hotel at the new terminal station would be the best investment in New York.

I spoke to a number of my financially active friends about it and they were enthusiastic.

I had verbal promises in one day's work of all the money necessary to finance the thing.

I found that the big vacant plot across from the station was held at a prohibitive price.