Status Updates From The Financier by Theodore D...

“He had studied the receipts of the New York Clearing House recently and the disposition of bank–balances and the shipment of gold, and had seen that vast quantities of the latter metal were going to Chicago. He understood finance accurately. The meaning of gold shipments was clear. Where money was going trade was—a thriving, developing life. He wished to see clearly for himself what this world had to offer.”

“… "this is the end. I am going West, and going into some other line of business." He thought of street–railways, land speculation, some great manufacturing project of some kind, even mining, on a legitimate basis. "I have had my lesson," he said to himself, finally getting up and preparing to leave. "I am as rich as I was, and only a little older. They caught me once, but they will not catch me again."”