The fact is, your father and I have been, quite unknown, to each other, engaged in the same scheme.

It is nothing more nor less than the acquisition of certain land and rights which carry with them the privilege of constructing a railway in the most promising part of South Africa--" Sir Stephen leant forward, his head on his hands, his eyes fixed on the heavy, stolid face of the speaker, the face which the keen, hawk-like eyes flashed under the lowered lids with a gleam of power and triumph.
-- "Your father had reason to hope that he would acquire those lands and rights; he did not know that I had been waiting for some years past to obtain them.

If knowledge is power and money, ignorance is impotence and ruin.

My knowledge against your father's ignorance has given me the victory.

Last night I gained my point: the news to that effect is no doubt contained in that document.