But, leaving out the question of our personal safety or convenience, I want to put this to you.

If you publish the contents of that document in the evening papers to-morrow, you will produce in America the greatest and most ruinous financial crisis that the country has ever known." For the first time Vine's cold, immobile face showed some signs of interest.

He abandoned his somewhat negligent attitude, and sat up with an attentive expression.
"What do you mean ?" he asked.
Weiss struck the table in front of him with his open hand.
"Don't you know," he said, "that Bardsley, Littleson, Higgins, Phineas Duge, and myself, are the blood and the muscle of this country, so far as regards finance?
Every one of the great railroad stocks is controlled by us.

Prices are more or less what we make them.

Three of the greatest industrial undertakings which the world has ever known, in which are invested hundreds of millions of honest American capital, are still controlled by us.