Are you sure, Ned, that you cannot go with me and bring your friend Allen, too?
I could make men of you both in a vast commercial world.

There have been great opportunities, and greater are coming.

The development of this mighty southwest will call for large and bold schemes of organization.

It is not money alone that I offer, but the risk, the hopes and rewards of a great game, in fact, the opening of a new world to civilization, for such this southwest is.

It appeals to some deeper feeling than that which can be aroused by the mere making of money." Ned, deeply interested, watched him intently as he spoke.