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It required all of my own courage and some of Bill Conway 's to do it , but -- we did it . Within three days our Los Angeles friend again arrived in El Toro and submitted an offer higher than the one made us by the Central California Power Company . So then I decided to shadow you , the president of the South Coast Power Corporation , and the president of the Central California Power Company . On the fifteenth day of October , at eight o'clock , p.m. , all three of you met in the office of your attorney in El Toro , and when this was reported to me , I sat down and did some thinking , with the following result : `` The backing so mysteriously given Bill Conway had you worried . You abandoned all thought of securing the ranch by foreclosure , and my careless , carefree , indifferent attitude confirmed you in this . Who , but one quite certain of his position , would waste his time watching a race-horse trained ? I knew then that news of my overtures to the Central California people were immediately reported to the South Coast people .