It was warm enough without that firewhich was
needed only for his purpose. The original capitalization was of a hundred thousand,
of whichtwenty stood in the names of Messrs. Then he thought of the fact that the
German engineer was waitinghis pleasure.
He did not know what washappening to him. Light and
Power ownsdams, turbines, and dynamos.
Was man,once started on that road, going to go the
way of the mastodon andthe dinosaur?
Any given development, once started, leads on by a
logic of itsown. Somers said you were here and had been here since five oclock. It
disquieted theold man; he did not quite know who he was.
The capital is two million dollars; ofwhich my
father held . What was it that stood at the end of the development of themachine?
But it never occurred to him toexamine that basis or to challenge a
fact.
By this time he was so keyed up that he was no
longer rememberingthe past, he was reliving it.
But the moment he didrelax, his mind was off again,
on independent paths of its own. That apparent mistrust of his fathers had done
something to him.
Within fifteen minutes he was back in his carriage,
account bookand plans under his arm.
What was it that stood at the end of the
development of themachine? Profit washis god; not HIS profit; not anyones; profit in
the abstract.
Yet it was after three when he left the house in
his carriage. Yet it was after three when he left the house in his
carriage.
He would have to facethe world and his tasks with a
new sense of disillusionment.
Whoever controls Langholm, therefore, controls
Western HourMills? His father, obsessed by his dream, had not been responsible for
hisactions.
Yes, hes back again; for I sent himhome to dress.