You have those men in your clutches.

You could break them if you wanted to." "Well," laughed Stirling, "on the whole I'm more disposed to make them hand over a moderate sum, and to let them off after that, on condition that in the future they keep their hands off the Grenfell Consolidated." "You'd take their word ?" Wannop asked.
"Yes," said Stirling, with an air of whimsical reflection; "in this case, anyway, I 'most think I could.

They've had about enough of the Grenfell Consols.

I guess they found them prickly." Then he went out, and Wannop despatched a telegram to Weston, who left the mine immediately after it reached him.

Somewhat to his astonishment, he, found Stirling awaiting him when he sprang down from the car platform in the station at Montreal, and the latter smiled benevolently as he grasped his hand.
"Ida would have come along if I'd let her," he explained.