They seat themselves near the table. A pipe and a jar of tobacco lie on the table.
"Will you smoke?"
Nevins shakes his head negatively, saying as he does so:
"I cannot talk and smoke at the same time. To-night I want to talk.
"The fact is I have become interested in you since your speech at the close of the conference.
"You will remember it was I who suggested that the committee appointed to investigate the Trust question be increased to forty.
"When I made that motion I had an object in view. I was anxious to have you become one of the committeemen."
"Then the full committee has been appointed?" Trueman asks.
"The forty committeemen have been named. You are not among them, and the reason is that the chairman is jealous of you."
"He can have no reason to be jealous of me."