"That's my notion.
I'm willing to listen if any man can bring out a better." There was a silence until Horton rose up at the foot of the table, glass in hand.

"I," he said simply, "don't think he can.

Every dollar I can raise is going in, and we're all standing in with Alton.

Here's the Somasco Consolidated, and to -- -- with Hallam." There was a roar louder than the first one, a clink of glasses, and forgetting their reticence for once the big bronzed men thronged about the one who smiled at them from the head of the table..