'
'Exactly.'
'Very well, then, you leave me what you know already about it, and I will
try to supplement your information. In fact, we shall have to supplement
it, before we can go before anybody with it. Now, I advise you to see the
Longworths--both old and young Longworth--and you may find that talking
with them in the City of London is very different from talking with them
on the _Caloric_. By the way, I wonder why Longworth was not at the
directors' meeting to-day.'
'I do not know. I noticed he was absent.'
'He very likely intends to have nothing more to do with the other mines,
and so there may be a possibility of his investing in ours. Do you know
his address?'
'Yes, I have it with me.'
'Then, if I were you, I would jump into a hansom and go there at once.
Meanwhile, I will try to get your figures into shipshape order, and
supplement them as far as it is possible to do so. This is going to be no
easy matter, John. There are a great many properties now being offered
to the public--the papers are full of them--and each of them appears to
be the most money-making scheme in existence; so if we are going to float
this mine without knowing any particular capitalist, we have our work cut
out for us.'
'Then, you would be willing to put the price up to two hundred thousand
pounds?'
'Yes, if you say the mine will stand it. That we can tell better after
we have gone over the figures together. We ought to be sure of our
facts first.
Pages:
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145