Values always assert themselves." "And the people who would benefit," Weiss said, leaning forward, "are the foreigners who stepped in with their gold and bought for themselves a share in our country at half its value." He stopped to answer for a moment an insistent ringing of the telephone from the outer office.

As he laid the receiver down he turned to Vine.
"Look here," he said, "you doubt my statement.

Outside in the office there is waiting to see me, upon a matter of business, a man who is as much my enemy as you are.

I mean John Drayton, Governor of New York.
Would you call him an honest man ?" "Absolutely!" Vine answered.
"Would you consider him a shrewd man ?" "Certainly," Vine assented.
"Then look here," Weiss said.

"I am going to ask him to come into this office.