"Oh no, sir," he replied.
"Nothing of the kind?"
"Oh no, sir."[88]
He was asked the question again, and again the denial was repeated.
"Done nothing of the sort?"
"Not at all."
But now he said, You must bind yourselves for ten years to refine only 85,000 barrels of oil a year.[89]
They had refined 120,000 barrels the year before, and could have done 180,000, and were growing up with the country. "The prospects were much better for the future."[90]
But they agreed.