Addison, finding that the Chicago Trust Company was already heavily loaded, called upon various minor but prosperous local banks to take over the new securities (each in part, of course).

He was astonished and chagrined to find that one and all uniformly refused.
"I'll tell you how it is, Judah," one bank president confided to him, in great secrecy.

"We owe Timothy Arneel at least three hundred thousand dollars that we only have to pay three per cent.for.

It's a call-loan.

Besides, the Lake National is our main standby when it comes to quick trades, and he's in on that.