"But there's one thing sure, I'll sink the last cent I have in the ground before I quit and let those Eastern pirates get their claws into me.
I'll have you cut down your force if necessary and string the last dollar and last day's work out till my three months' grace is up." "Might try McDonnell for another loan," Carrigan suggested.
"I hate doing that worse than anything I know.

He, not the bank, let me have that twenty thousand on my unsecured note.

I had nothing to offer but my stock in this company, and until the project's finished that's no better than so much blank paper.

Loaned it to me because of my nerve, he said.

And at the time I told him it would be enough money to carry me through, which I believed.