Picture a party of the nation’s greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under the cover of darkness stealthily hieing hundreds of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking on to an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was mentioned lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, and most secret expedition in the history of American finance.