"What phase?"
"To be quite frank, he called your public utterances wild. He said they attacked credit and might shake it. He even intimated that if you were elected, you'd go in for a course of action—you had pledged yourself to go in for one that would upset credit altogether. And that's true, Huber." Forbes gained a certain confidence. "When you come to think of it, the business interests of the city—I mean the sound conservative business interests—ought not to be made to suffer for the sins of the big financiers."
Luke recaptured his composure. His face relaxed; he looked lazy and uninterested.
"So I suppose," he said, "that this banker asked you to tell me to get out of the fight."
"Yes, but of course——"
"Really, that's the highest testimony to the League's strength that we've had yet."
"Yes, but, of course, I told him I couldn't do that."
"What did he say then?"
"He said he was afraid the City Chamberlain would withdraw all the city funds on deposit at the East County if the bank kept on carrying a loan you were interested in."
"And you took all this like a child?"