More probably she was a dreamer--one of those meddling sociologists who, under pretence of bettering the conditions of the working classes, stir up discontent and bitterness of feeling.

As such; she might prove more to be feared than a mere blackmailer whom he could buy off with money.

He knew he was not popular, but he was no worse than the other captains of industry.

It was a cut-throat game at best.

Competition was the soul of commercial life, and if he had outwitted his competitors and made himself richer than all of them, he was not a criminal for that.