Mr. Hubert. Well, why did you do it?
Mr. Paul. Personally, I don’t know—I just did it on the spur of the moment, and I have been sorry every day after that.
Mr. Hubert. Did you ask Jack, or send word to him that you were going to do this?
Mr. Paul. No, sir.
Mr. Hubert. Did you ask—well, weren’t you interested in salvaging some of the debt that was owed to you if you could?
Mr. Paul. If I could.
Mr. Hubert. That’s what I meant—that was why you did it?
Mr. Paul. Yes; but I saw what I was getting into—it turned out to be a lemon.
Mr. Hubert. Well, it turned out, as you say, to be a lemon, but your motive was to see if you could operate it to see if anything could be made out of it, to see if you could recover some of the debt that was owed to you?
Mr. Paul. That’s right.