Each one of the little group was beset by taunts and temptations.

Watson was offered ten thousand dollars for his one-tenth interest, and hesitated three days before refusing it.
Railroad companies offered Vail a salary that was higher and sure, if he would superintend their mail business.

And as for Sanders, his folly was the talk of Haverhill.

One Haverhill capitalist, E.J.

M.Hale, stopped him on the street and asked, "Have n't you got a good leather business, Mr.Sanders ?" "Yes," replied Sanders.