The real difficulty in touching it was elsewhere.

Against that there was an implication of calm and implacable resolution in Charles Gould's very voice.

Men of affairs venture sometimes on acts that the common judgment of the world would pronounce absurd; they make their decisions on apparently impulsive and human grounds.

"Very well," had said the considerable personage to whom Charles Gould on his way out through San Francisco had lucidly exposed his point of view.

"Let us suppose that the mining affairs of Sulaco are taken in hand.