The collateral offered was excellent.

"I don't want to quarrel with Schryhart," Addison had protested at the time; "but I am afraid his charge is unfair.

He is trying to vent a private grudge through the Lake National.

That is not the way nor this the place to do it." Both Hand and Arneel, sober men both, agreed with this--admiring Addison--and so the case stood.

Schryhart, however, frequently intimated to them both that Cowperwood was merely building up the Chicago Trust Company at the expense of the Lake City National, in order to make the former strong enough to do without any aid, at which time Addison would resign and the Lake City would be allowed to shift for itself.