He would take the project to certain money-loving souls; he would get their opinions by asking their aid.
Mr.Harley went to New York and called about him a quintette of gentlemen, each of whom had been with him and Senator Hanway in more than one affair of shady profit.

Mankind does not change, its methods change, and trade has still its Kidds and Blackbeards.

Present commerce has its pirates and its piracies; only the buccaneers of now do not launch ships, but stock companies, while Wall and Broad Streets are their Spanish Main.

They do not, like Francis Drake, lay off and on at the Isthmus to stop plate ships; they seek their galleons in the Stock Exchange.

Those five to gather at the call of Mr.Harley were of our modern Drakes.