How could you be so thoughtless--the men ought to have been paid though it beggared us all!" "They ought, ought they?
Then why the devil--my name is not Bryerson, by the way--why the mischief didn't the compa--why what in the nation ever became of the appropriation?
Where is that appropriation ?--if a stockholder may make so bold as to ask." The appropriation ?--that paltry $200,000, do you mean ?" "Of course--but I didn't know that $200,000 was so very paltry.

Though I grant, of course, that it is not a large sum, strictly speaking.

But where is it ?" "My dear sir, you surprise me.

You surely cannot have had a large acquaintance with this sort of thing.

Otherwise you would not have expected much of a result from a mere INITIAL appropriation like that.
It was never intended for anything but a mere nest egg for the future and real appropriations to cluster around." "Indeed?
Well, was it a myth, or was it a reality?
Whatever become of it ?" "Why the--matter is simple enough.