15/43 If Henderson's man wins, there'll be new aldermen. I'm a rich man, but at present I'm up to my neck in southern contracts that aren't paying ten cents on the dollar. I gave him ten dollars for something I'd have given ten hundred for just as quickly. If Henderson had sprung Warrington in September, we'd have been swamped. Now we have a good chance to hang on." "Force him to back down and withdraw ?" McQuade nodded. |