He was wondering if his sire had a suspicion who wrote it and was leading up to that.

But Ryder, Sr., continued: "Do I care?
The more they attack me the more I like it.

Their puny pen pricks have about the same effect as mosquito bites on the pachyderm.

What I am, the conditions of my time made me.

When I started in business a humble clerk, forty years ago, I had but one goal--success; I had but one aim--to get rich.