Ten thousand a year for four years would be a mere salary item, and at the end of that time he felt sure that he could supply the remainder of the money quite easily.

He would be so much richer; his plans would be so much more mature.

On such a repute (the ability to give a three-hundred-thousand-dollar telescope out of hand to be known as the Cowperwood telescope) he could undoubtedly raise money in London, New York, and elsewhere for his Chicago enterprise.

The whole world would know him in a day.

He paused, his enigmatic eyes revealing nothing of the splendid vision that danced before them.