The combination must be obviously advisable.

Besides, he was dealing for Butler in street-railway stocks, and if this particular line were such a good thing Butler might wonder why it had not been brought to him in the first place.

It would be better, Frank thought, to wait until he actually had it as his own, in which case it would be a different matter.

Then he could talk as a capitalist.

He began to dream of a city-wide street-railway system controlled by a few men, or preferably himself alone..