It was said that Old Man Hogg, a self-made man of considerable resources, had acquired his wealth only because be was excessively mean with money and never gave a thought to anyone. In truth this was not so. As he got older, Hogg frequently brooded about his money:
"What good are my steamship lines to me," he muttered one night, "my oil stocks; my department-store chain; all my hundreds of millions of dollars --"
"When my poor mother-in-law is starving in an attic?"