"I suppose not. What do you want me to do?"
"I want you to give the order to your leaders. There are a hundred of them, perhaps a few more. No doubt my list is not absolutely accurate. Call them in, from Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston and Philadelphia. Have them all in one room. You introduce me. Let me talk to them. I will open the war chest, fifty million to start with, and more to come. You promise them anything you want, and I will make the promise good."
"And you will be there? Right in the room with me?"
"I will be there."
"I won't do it!" growled the Old Man. "I never have and I never will. I don't do things that way. A whisper to one or two, and the business is done, but not a hundred at one time. Some of these boys have never seen me."
"Then you want to turn me down?"
"Not exactly, but I am opposed to that meeting."
"Then we are through talking. I will take you to the five-ten train, or, if you want to, I will have my chauffeur drive you to the city."
"Let's talk it over."
"No."