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He did not give Mr Myson an answer at once , but he gave himself an answer at once . He would go into the immense adventure . He was very friendly with the _ Signal _ people -- certainly ; but business was business , and the highest welfare of the Five Towns was the highest welfare of the Five Towns . Soon afterwards all the hoardings of the district spoke with one blue voice , and said that the _ Five Towns Weekly _ was to be transformed into the _ Five Towns Daily _ , with four editions , beginning each day at noon , and that the new organ would be conducted on the lines of a first-class evening paper . The inner ring of knowing ones knew that a company entitled `` The Five Towns Newspapers , Limited , '' had been formed , with a capital of ten thousand pounds , and that Mr Myson held three thousand pounds ' worth of shares , and the great Denry Machin one thousand five hundred , and that the remainder were to be sold and allotted as occasion demanded . The inner ring said that nothing would ever be able to stand up against the _ Signal _ . On the other hand , it admitted that Denry , the most prodigious card ever born into the Five Towns , had never been floored by anything .