"It's fine to talk about fair interest.

I know and you know that the total earnings of the P.and S.W .-- their main, branch and leased lines for last year--was between nineteen and twenty millions of dollars.

Do you mean to say that twenty million dollars is seven per cent.

of the original cost of the road ?" S.Behrman spread out his hands, smiling.
"That was the gross, not the net figure--and how can you tell what was the original cost of the road ?" "Ah, that's just it," shouted Harran, emphasising each word with a blow of his fist upon his knee, his eyes sparkling, "you take cursed good care that we don't know anything about the original cost of the road.

But we know you are bonded for treble your value; and we know this: that the road COULD have been built for fifty-four thousand dollars per mile and that you SAY it cost you eighty-seven thousand.