“Because we have bought the businesses and the options are ours for ever.”
“Have you anything to prove that?”
Without further reply he selected several other papers and presented them to me. These also were satisfactory.
“I shall report to Mr. Hemster that your position appears to be quite as strong as you stated it to be, and so I wish you good-morning, Mr. Cammerford.”
“Hold your horses a minute,” he cried, seeing me about to arise. “As you have asked me a whole lot of questions, I’d like you to answer a few of mine. Who’s in this other combine?”
“I know nothing of it, except that it is in existence.”
“Do you imagine it’s a bluff?”
“I tell you I don’t know. I should think Mr. Hemster is not a man to engage in bluff.”
“Oh, isn’t he? That shows how little you know of him. Have you been with him ever since he left Chicago?”