ROGERS GRASPS "COPPERS"
The next day our gas business brought me to New York, and after Mr. Rogers and myself had threshed out the matter I had come about, he said with a smile:
"Well, I've heard from John Moore. Are you satisfied now? Will you drop that copper will-o'-the-wisp?"
"Far from it," I replied. "I'm surer than ever of my position. In going over the ground with Moore I got the whole business in perspective, and now I know I'm right. All his argument amounted to anyway was that it was impossible for so gigantic a thing to have lain out in the travelled highways all these years."
I ran on vigorously for a few moments, in a way I felt might pique his curiosity, if it did not gain my point. Finally he said:
"Well, Lawson, what more can I do?"
"This," I answered: "go over the matter fully with me yourself. I will surely carry it through one way or another; if not with you, with others, and I cannot drop it with you until I have your personal judgment."
Instantly came one of those flash decisions for which H. H. Rogers is noted among his business associates, the oft-proved correctness of which goes far toward making him the pre-eminent American financier of the day.
"Lawson," he said, "be in New York next Sunday, and I will listen until you have run the subject out."