The sale left me a clear profit of more than half a million dollars.
The papers were ordered to be drawn up, but as I was leaving Mr.
Russell Sturgis said they had just heard that Mr.Baring himself was coming up to town in the morning.

They had arranged to hold a "court," and as it would be fitting to lay the transaction before him as a matter of courtesy they would postpone the signing of the papers until the morrow.

If I would call at two o'clock the transaction would be closed.
Never shall I forget the oppressed feeling which overcame me as I stepped out and proceeded to the telegraph office to wire President Thomson.

Something told me that I ought not to do so.

I would wait till to-morrow when I had the contract in my pocket.