"
When Sam returned to give himself again to affairs, the country was just
at the beginning of the great wave of consolidation which was finally to
sweep all of the financial power of the country into a dozen pairs of
competent and entirely efficient hands. With the sure instinct of the born
trader Sam had seen this movement coming and had studied it. Now he began
to act. Going to that same swarthy-faced lawyer who had drawn the contract
for him to secure control of the medical student's twenty thousand dollars
and who had jokingly invited him to become one of a band of train robbers,
he told him of his plans to begin working toward a consolidation of all
the firearms companies of the country.
Webster wasted no time in joking now. He laid out the plans, adjusted and
readjusted them to suit Sam's shrewd suggestions, and when a fee was
mentioned shook his head.
"I want in on this," he said. "You will need me. I am made for this game
and have been waiting for a chance to get at it. Just count me in as one
of the promoters if you will."
Sam nodded his head. Within a week he had formed a pool of his own
company's stock controlling, as he thought, a safe majority and had begun
working to form a similar pool in the stock of his only big western rival.
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