Moreover, those four millions would not be asked for before the first of January.

Other speculations might intervene, and provide those lacking fifty thousand.
Mr.Harley laid the Storri project, and the plans of the pool to seize Northern Consolidated, before Senator Hanway.

That candidate for a Presidency knitted his brows and pondered the business.

As with Mr.
Harley and the pirate five, the mad grandeur of the idea charmed him.
One element seemed plain: there could come no loss from the raid on Northern Consolidated.

He might go that far with safety, and a certainty of profit; for in the Senate committee of investigation he, himself, would play the controlling card.
"The proposal," said Senator Hanway, when he and Mr.Harley conferred, "while gigantic in its unfoldment, seems a reasonable one.