The papers was full of it.

There'd been a row among the two leadin' stockholders, Gabe Sterzer and 'Major' Gordon.

Them two double-back-action millionaires practically owned the trust, and the state 'twas in, and the politics of that state, and all the politicians.

Each of 'em run three or four banks of their own, and a couple of newspapers, and other things, till you couldn't rest.

Then they had the row, and Gabe had took his playthings and gone home, as you might say.