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I waited for the offer of an interest and the 

 suggestion that we join forces and promote the 

 Iron Mountain Railroad together, and was 

 piqued that no such offer was made. I learned 

 with deep regret when too late, that this alliance 

 had been his wish and hope, but that he thought 

 it was my place to propose it since his money was 

 already involved and that if I cared to risk mine 

 I should have said so. 



"Our work is not design but destiny," — for 

 how else could the chance of an unspoken word 

 have separated those whose natures were in har- 

 mony and whose interests had long been and 

 should have continued as one. My means added 

 to my partners would have made easy those early 

 days of the railroad promotion and the subse- 

 quent financing of the enterprise through bond 

 issues would have been play to me where to him it 

 meant a period of much anxiety. Yet in the 

 end it recorded a great success for it shared in 

 the nation-wide railroad boom and the profits of 

 the promotion ran well into the millions. 



My own surplus money burned holes in my 



