'Mr.
Chairman,' he said, 'when I come into the office of an industrial
corporation, and see a stock ticker behind the president's chair
with the carpet worn threadbare in front of it, I know what's the
matter with that corporation without asking another word.'"
"What do you want to know about him for?" asked the General, after
he had got through laughing over this recollection.
"It's a case I'm concerned in," the other answered.
"I tell you who knows about him," said the General. "Harry Curtiss.
William E. Davenant has done law business for Price."
"Is that so?" said Montague. "Then probably I shall meet Harry."
"I can tell you a better person yet," said the other, after a
moment's thought. "Ask your friend Mrs. Alden; she knows Price
intimately, I believe."
So Montague sent up a note to Mrs. Billy, and the reply came, "Come
up to dinner. I am not going out." And so, late in the afternoon, he
was ensconced in a big leather armchair in Mrs. Billy's private
drawing-room, and listening to an account of the owner of the
Mississippi Steel Company.
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