She nodded.
"That is true. But how much is your railroad worth?"
"It is bonded for fifty millions first, and twenty millions second mortgage."
"Well, seventy millions are worth fighting for: worth a very considerable risk, I should say."
"Yes." And after another thoughtful interval: "How did you come to think of it?"
"It grew out of a bit of talk with the man who will have to put the apex on our pyramid after we have done our part."
"Will he stand by us? If he doesn't, we shall all be no better than dead men the morning after the fact."
She clasped her hands tightly over her knee, and said:
"That is one of the chances we must take, David; one of the many. But it is the last of the bridges to be crossed, and there are lots of them in between. Are the details possible? That was the part I couldn't go into by myself."
He took other minutes for reflection.