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“Well,” I said, “why don't you call up Mr. Taylor and ask him what he thinks about it?”

He grumbled a while and finally he said, “Well, Myron's out in the country. I can't get him today. I'm deaf, you know. I can't hear over the telephone.”

I said, “You're doing very well, Mr. Sloan; why don't you call up Mr. Taylor.” I didn't dare say that I knew Mr. Taylor was in town, but I said, “He isn't very far. If he's out in the country, he's out in Long Island. You know his telephone number in town, don't you? If you tell the butler who you are, they'll tell you how to reach him in the country.”

He growled away. He's a very growly kind of a person. He said perhaps he would. I told him he could reach me at the Cosmopolitan Club. I said goodbye to Mr. Chrysler because I had to get back to the Cosmopolitan Club. Chrysler was very much amused. He was very interested and very amused. I realized that Sloan was right in his estimate of Chrysler. He would play like a fox. It wasn't news to Chrysler that Big Steel might come through on this. He knew about it, though not from me. Chrysler was the kind of man who had an informer everywhere. He knew things before the principals knew them sometimes. Somebody in Big Steel had told