Ah, I understand what you meant by dry up. You didn't mean that NLWC would be out of money, just that he wouldn't be getting money from it, presumably. My apologies for the shortsightedness.
You're not reading it well or maybe I didn't say it well.
He never said the latter. He chose 'home for loyalty of money elsewhere' in that elsewhere was the key omitted word. The amount of money he got for staying home is entirely irrelevant. It could be $5 or $5 million. Home over money elsewhere.