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like that to me. I'm Alfred Sloan. I've got seventy million dollars and I made it all myself.”

I said, “Haven't you ever read what happens to the rich man? It's like the camel trying to go through the eye of the needle. If you've got seventy million dollars, it's going to drown you, Mr. Sloan. It's going to sink you. For God's sake, don't say those words to me again. It makes you a worse rotter than I thought you were.”

I gave him the old Harry. That seventy million dollars is engraved on my mind and on Susanna's too. The heard me say, “That if you have got seventy million dollars? It'll drown you. It'll sink you.”

It was terrible. My guest, who was a close, intimate friend of the family, was probably aghast. I suppose if it had been a stranger some frightful conventionality would have come over me. Although, I'm not sure. I completely lost treck of who was in the house, or who might hear, or whether Mr. Sloan might have a listener on the wire. I remember Susanna saying, “Perhaps he's got a listener taking this down.”

I said to her, “Well, it won't do Alfred Sloan any good if he publishes it, “which was true. Of course he never did.