Good day." "Mr.Plank--" "Mr.Quarrier, I want to tell you something.

Never before, in business differences, has private indignation against any individual interfered or modified my course of action.

It does now; but it does not dictate my policy toward you; it merely, as I say, modifies it.

I am perfectly aware of what I am doing; what social disaster I am inviting by this attitude toward you personally; what financial destruction I am courting in arousing the wrath of the Algonquin Trust Company and of the powerful interests intrenched behind Inter-County Electric.

I know what the lobby is; I know what judge cannot be counted on; I know my peril and my chances, every one; and I take them--every one.