Respectfully, E.VAN CORTLANDT WYNNE They were on hand promptly, all of them--Mr.Latham, Mr.Schultze, Mr.Solomon, Mr.Stoddard and Mr.Harris.

The experts agreed upon were the unemotional Mr.Czenki, Mr.Cawthorne, an Englishman in the employ of Solomon, Berger and Company, and Mr.Schultze, who gravely admitted that he was the first expert in the land, after Mr.
Czenki, and whose opinion of himself was unanimously accepted by the others.

The meeting place was the directors' room of the H.Latham Company.
At one minute of three o'clock a clerk entered with a card, and handed it to Mr.Latham.
"'Mr.E.van Cortlandt Wynne,'" Mr.Latham read aloud, and every man in the room moved a little in his chair.

Then: "Show him in here, please." "Now, gendlemens," observed Mr.Schultze sententiously, "ve shall zee vat ve shall zee." The clerk went out and a moment later Mr.Wynne appeared.

He was tall and rather slender, alert of eyes, graceful of person; perfectly self-possessed and sure of himself, yet without one trace of egotism in manner or appearance--a fair type of the brisk, courteous young business man of New York.