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"But I do tell you just that. It won't hurt Parmalee a bit; and Benson can go on Bensoning to the end of time to big money. You keep forgetting this twenty-million audience. Go out and buy a picture magazine and read it through, just to remind you. They want hokum, and pay for it. Even this thing of Baird's, with all the saving slapstick, is over the heads of a good half of them.
She interrupted him with quiet dignity, although the expression of her eyes was suddenly stormy. "Yes; it is." "Would you please be more explicit? I am afraid that I do not clearly understand." "Well, Pat, to put it in plain words, Roderick's answer implied that he would be only too delighted to advance the sum I require twenty-million dollars to his prospective father-in-law!"
The paper had declared that those directors had juggled a twenty-million dollar surplus for years, lending it to one another at a low rate of interest, until, alarmed by clamouring stockholders, they had declared this enormous dividend, taking first, however, the precaution to buy for a low price all the stock they could.
I selected Mr. Melvin because I knew him to be in your confidence, and I surmised that you would prefer that the condition of affairs under which you are now struggling, which forces you to borrow twenty-million dollars, should not be made known to an outsider." "Well, I'll tell you that I won't hear of it! It's got to stop right now. I won't have those papers drawn at all. I won't have it.
"One of the things we found," he remarked. "Incomplete. If we could, for instance, locate the other parts..." Frank saw a little cylinder, with grey coils wrapped inside it a power chamber, perhaps, to be lined with magnetic force, the only thing that could contain what amounted to a tiny twenty-million degree piece of a star's hot heart.
The fathers had intended to neutralize the energy of government and had succeeded, but their machine was never meant to do the work of a twenty-million horse-power society in the twentieth century, where much work needed to be quickly and efficiently done.
Their interests aren't those of adults. In fact, they think adults are pretty dull. No adventure. They can't see that juggling a twenty-million gamble on tooling up for a new competitive product is exciting; they can't understand working in a dull laboratory to dig something new out of nature's files can be exciting and dangerous.
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