I want you to meet them." Dick's hearty introduction was enough to recommend the contractor to his comrades, but Warner already knew him well by reputation.
"I've heard of you often from some of our officers, Mr.Watson," he said.
"You deliver good goods and you're a New Englander, like myself.

Ten years from now you'll be an extremely rich man, a millionaire, twenty years from now you'll be several times a millionaire.

About that time I'll become president of Harvard, and we'll need money--a great university always needs money--and I'll come to you for a donation of one hundred thousand dollars to Harvard, and you'll give it to me promptly." John Watson looked at him fixedly, and slowly a look of great admiration spread over his face.
"Of course you're a New Englander," he said.

"It was not necessary for you to say so.

I could have told it by looking at you and hearing you talk.