"Thank you. Still, without you nothing would have been effected; for mark the fact, Valentine, that although I have the richest capitalists and highest men in Mexico as shareholders in the Atravida, not one of them would have advanced me an ochavo to pay the expenses of the organisation, which I was bound to settle alone."
"That is a clever arrangement, brother. You have to deal with cunning shareholders."
"All the better. I will soon prove to them that they did wrong in not giving me all that confidence I deserve."
"I like that way of revenging yourself. But tell me——"
"What?"
"Have you influential men among your shareholders?"
"What do you mean by influential?"
"Why, men whose political position offers you a certain guarantee against the annoyances which will be inevitably created down there, to prevent the success of your enterprise, and prepare its failure."
"I fear nothing of the sort."
"All the better."