The one trouble is that I'm carrying a good deal of the city's money as it is.

You see, I have that two hundred thousand dollars against your city-loan deals.

And this new scheme will take two or three hundred thousand more.

If that were out of the way--" He was thinking of one of the inexplicable stock panics--those strange American depressions which had so much to do with the temperament of the people, and so little to do with the basic conditions of the country.
"If this North Pennsylvania deal were through and done with--" He rubbed his chin and pulled at his handsome silky mustache.
"Don't ask me any more about it, George," he said, finally, as he saw that the latter was beginning to think as to which line it might be.
"Don't say anything at all about it.

I want to get my facts exactly right, and then I'll talk to you.