And each stated it had information that W. H. Garrettson had been
kidnapped and was held for one hundred million dollars ransom. The
Wall Street news agencies sent out the news on the tickers. One of them
subtly finished:
_Those who know Mr. Garrettson state that the two things the greatest
financier of our times cannot do are: first, take advice; and second,
be coerced. A man who has compelled a President of the United States to
come to him for advice, and who has flatly told a reigning monarch, No!
is not going to do as he is told by any band of crooks! The worst is,
therefore, to be feared!_