I discovered that for those ten years my gain was just equivalent to a manager's salary.

The railroad might just as well have owned my quarry and hired me to run it." "But with this difference," Ernest laughed; "the railroad would have had to assume all the risk which you so obligingly assumed for it." "Very true," Mr.Asmunsen answered sadly.
Having let them have they say, Ernest began asking questions right and left.

He began with Mr.Owen.
"You started a branch store here in Berkeley about six months ago ?" "Yes," Mr.Owen answered.
"And since then I've noticed that three little corner groceries have gone out of business.

Was your branch store the cause of it ?" Mr.Owen affirmed with a complacent smile.

"They had no chance against us." "Why not ?" "We had greater capital.