"Do you refuse to tell me anything about it?" he snapped.
"Tell you about it?" said I. "What could I possibly tell you about your own scheme? You flatter me; you are getting excited. Let me ask you a question, What do you say it means?"
"I say it means," he fairly yelled, "that we have been buncoed—swindled!"
"If that is a fact," I said, "you are the best man on earth to tackle such a proposition. Introducing swindlers to justice is your specialty."
"Lawson," said he, "let's talk it out. I don't see wherein you are in any way to blame, but I tell you if I find true what I now suspect, there will be music in the copper world that will set copper investors by the ears."
I saw there was no use trying to dodge the issue, and we entered into executive session. He had gathered most of the facts, he told me, and to ascertain the balance, proposed at once to call a meeting of Utah Consolidated stockholders. Also he had men out examining the transfer agencies to find who got the shares of Utah delivered to Rogers.
I said to him, "What do you think has happened, Untermyer?"
"I think you people have sold the bulk of that stock," he said.
"Suppose we have," I said; "there is no crime in that, is there?"
"No crime," said he, "but it is a piece of dirty double-dealing."