Wasn't it ?' 'It depends on why you did it,' said the lady, going to the point directly.
'That was the business side,' answered her companion.

'You see, a big thing like the Nickel Trust always has a lot of enemies, besides a heap of people who want to get some of it cheap.

This time they put their heads together and got up one of the usual stories.

You see, Isidore H.Bamberger is the president and I only appear as a director, though most of it's mine.

So they got up a story that he was operating on his own account to get behind me, and that we were going to quarrel over it, and there was going to be a slump, and people began to believe it.