Each will employ a capital of from two to two hundred millions of dollars.

Over all, and to own the stock of those smaller ones, we must throw a giant company.

Do you know what it will require?
Do you realize what its capital must be?
It will call for the cost price of an empire, my friend; it will demand full thirty billions! Think of the president of such a company! He will have rank by himself; he will tower above kings.

What shall we call it?
Name it for that mighty Portuguese who was first to send his ship around the globe; name it Credit Magellan!" Mr.Harley wiped the sweat from his forehead.

It was a day in October, one reasonably cool, and yet, when Storri ended with his Credit Magellan and came to a full stop, Mr.Harley was in a perspiration.