"Dear, dear," he cried.

"Ned Green! Big Green.

Well, well! You do surprise me.

I would rather have done him a favor than an injury.

I am rejoiced to learn that no harm was done and that, after all, you and he came out ahead." It was about this time Jay Gould had bought of the Thomas A.Scott estate a New York daily newspaper which, in spite of brilliant writers like Manton Marble and William Henry Hurlbut, had never been a moneymaker.