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could be reached which was 
1st not contrary to the Sherman act
2/ Fair and equitable to all interested parties. 
3/ Which would not make me feel all the time as if the same tactics of Redmanol Co where going to be used inside of the merger to take advantage of myself or associates
I told him that since the G.B. Co is in existence I never had had an unpleasant word nor action with any of my associates, nor had there ever been an instance where one group of stockholders or directors had tried to play tricks on the other
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I concluded by saying that before discussing an arrangement by settling the present patent suits I would prefer to consider first the practicability of a merger and as this did not interest Messr Neave and Bull who are not acquainted with the business situation we would resume the subject to morrow [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] between Mr. Townsend myself and Mr. Karpen [[strikethrough]] in Townsend [[/strikethrough]] in the evening at one of my clubs. Karpen is in a hurry and even proposes to meet on Sunday. He seems in a hurry probably because he wants to decide whether to exercise his option on Van Vlecks controling stock of the Condensite Company. He will await to hear further from me