I asked Wallin if he knew why the directors were down on the Chicago Trust or on you, and at first he said he didn't.

Then he said he'd stop in and lunch with me some day.

They're the silliest lot of old ostriches I ever heard of.

As if refusing to let us have money on any loan here was going to prevent us from getting it! They can take their little old one-horse banks and play blockhouses with them if they want to.

I can go to New York and in thirty-six hours raise twenty million dollars if we need it." Addison was a little warm.