Kaffrath, dubious at first, was finally won over.

He had too long chafed under the dusty, poky attitude of the old regime.

He did not know who these new men were, but this scheme was in line with his own ideas.

It would require, as Addison pointed out, the expenditure of several millions of dollars, and he did not see how the money could be raised without outside assistance, unless the lines were heavily mortgaged.

If these new men were willing to pay a high rate for fifty-one per cent.