Neither doubted that the promise would be fulfilled, and fulfilled it was and fourfold more.
"You New Englanders certainly stand together," said Dick.
"Not more than you Kentuckians," replied the contractor.

"I was in Kentucky several times before the war, and you seemed to be one big family there." "But in the war we've not been one big family," said Dick, somewhat sadly.

"I suppose that no state has been more terribly divided than Kentucky.

Nowhere has kin fought more fiercely against kin." "But you'll come together again after the war," said Watson cheerfully.
"That great bond of kinship will prove more powerful than anything else." "I hope so," said Dick earnestly.
They had the contractor to dinner with them, and he opened new worlds of interest and endeavor for all of them.

He was a mighty captain of industry, a term that came into much use later, and mentally they followed him as he led the way into fields of immense industrial achievement.