Van Torp has grown so much of late that he is probably one of them.

Some people are good enough to think that I'm another.

The blood of the financial body--call it gold, or credit, or anything you like--circulates through all the organs, and if one of the great vital ones gets out of order the whole body is likely to suffer.

Suppose that Van Torp wished to do something with the Nickel Trust in Paris, and that I had private information to the effect that he was not a man to be trusted, and that I believed this information, don't you see that I should naturally warn my friends against him, and that our joint weight would be an effective obstacle in his way ?' 'Yes, I see that.

But, dear me! do you mean to say that all financiers must be strictly virtuous, like little woolly white lambs ?' Margaret laughed carelessly.