"
"Is he so rich as all that?" asked Lucy.
"I don't know how rich he is personally," said Montague. "I know he
is one of the most powerful men in New York. They call him the
'System's' banker."
"I have heard Mr. Ryder speak of him," said she.
"Not very favourably, I imagine," said he, with a smile.
"No," said she, "they had some kind of a quarrel. What was the
matter?"
"I don't know anything about it," was the answer. "But Ryder is a
free lance, and a new man, and Duval works with the big men who
don't like to have trespassers about."
Lucy was silent for a minute; her brows were knit in thought. "Is it
really true that Mr. Ryder's position is so unstable? I thought the
Gotham Trust Company was one of the largest institutions in the
country. What are those huge figures that you see in their
advertisements,--seventy millions--eighty millions--what is it?"
"Something like that," said Montague.
"And is not that true?" she asked.
"Yes, I guess that's true," he said. "I don't know anything about
Ryder's affairs, you know--I simply hear the gossip.
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