And that was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the investments by the Langbane family.
As for the rest of the money, they couldn't possibly spend it all, so they deposited it in the bank on Queen Street, exchanged it for stocks in the Colin Group and the Royal Railway Company, and waited for them to pay off.
Although the relationship between the Campbell family and the Devalu family had reached a freezing point, Newcastle wasn't naive enough to think that Edward would openly confront those generous Ryan Nobles.
After all, the swindlers in Thunder City were miserly to the extreme; even donating a steam engine to a school took a long time to haggle over. And these noble Ryan Nobles invested without caring about profit and loss, only about the long term.
They impulsively placed the theater next to the New Industrial Zone, indifferent to whether Miss Marie would visit, though it ended up benefiting the poor in Thunder City.
