Burdened beyond that, his imagination would break down; and since his instincts, his policies, and his suspicions rested wholly upon his imagination, when the latter fell the others must of need go with it.

There is a depth to money just as there is to a lake; when you led Mr.Harley in beyond the nine-million-dollar mark he began to drown.

When Storri--Pelion upon Ossa--piled steamship on railway, and canal on steamship, and banking and lumber and mining and twenty other companies on top of these, Mr.
Harley was dazed and benumbed.

When Storri concluded and capped all with his Credit Magellan, capital thirty billions, it was, so far as Mr.
Harley is to be considered, like taking a child to sea.

In the haze and the blur of it, Mr.Harley could see nothing, say nothing; his impulse was to be alone and collect himself.