But he would drive the city loan to par and then sell.

And what a fat thing for himself among others in so doing.

Wisely enough he sensed that there was politics in all this--shrewder and bigger men above and behind Stener.

But what of that?
And how slyly and shrewdly they were sending Stener to him.

It might be that his name was becoming very potent in their political world here.