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She
sat
up
straight
.
"
Midas
Mulligan
?
"
"
Yeah
—
the
banker
who
looked
like
a
truck
driver
and
acted
it
,
too
!
"
"
Did
you
know
Midas
Mulligan
?
"
"
Did
I
know
him
?
I
’
m
the
only
man
who
ever
beat
him
—
not
that
it
did
me
any
good
!
"
At
odd
moments
,
with
a
sudden
sense
of
uneasiness
,
she
had
wondered
—
as
she
wondered
about
the
stories
of
deserted
ships
found
floating
at
sea
or
of
sourceless
lights
flashing
in
the
sky
—
about
the
disappearance
of
Midas
Mulligan
.
There
was
no
reason
why
she
felt
that
she
had
to
solve
these
riddles
,
except
that
they
were
mysteries
which
had
no
business
being
mysteries
:
they
could
not
be
causeless
,
yet
no
known
cause
could
explain
them
.
Midas
Mulligan
had
once
been
the
richest
and
,
consequently
,
the
most
denounced
man
in
the
country
.
He
had
never
taken
a
loss
on
any
investment
he
made
;
everything
he
touched
turned
into
gold
.
"
It
’
s
because
I
know
what
to
touch
,
"
he
said
.
Nobody
could
grasp
the
pattern
of
his
investments
:
he
rejected
deals
that
were
considered
flawlessly
safe
,
and
he
put
enormous
amounts
into
ventures
that
no
other
banker
would
handle
.
Through
the
years
,
he
had
been
the
trigger
that
had
sent
unexpected
,
spectacular
bullets
of
industrial
success
shooting
over
the
country
.
It
was
he
who
had
invested
in
Rearden
Steel
at
its
start
,
thus
helping
Rearden
to
complete
the
purchase
of
the
abandoned
steel
mills
in
Pennsylvania
.
When
an
economist
referred
to
him
once
as
an
audacious
gambler
,
Mulligan
said
,
"
The
reason
why
you
’
ll
never
get
rich
is
because
you
think
that
what
I
do
is
gambling
.
"
It
was
rumored
that
one
had
to
observe
a
certain
unwritten
rule
when
dealing
with
Midas
Mulligan
:
if
an
applicant
for
a
loan
ever
mentioned
his
personal
need
or
any
personal
feeling
whatever
,
the
interview
ended
and
he
was
never
given
another
chance
to
speak
to
Mr
.
Mulligan
.
"
Why
yes
,
I
can
,
"
said
Midas
Mulligan
,
when
he
was
asked
whether
he
could
name
a
person
more
evil
than
the
man
with
a
heart
closed
to
pity
.
"
The
man
who
uses
another
’
s
pity
for
him
as
a
weapon
.
"
