Then these two fools will be sold, for they think they are going to get
the money, and they are not.'
'And you have the money to buy the mine when the option runs out, sir.'
'By Jove!' said William in surprise, 'you have a prodigious head for
business, Susy; I never saw anyone pick it up so fast. You will have to
take lessons from me, and go on the market and speculate yourself.'
'Oh, I should like to do that, sir--I should indeed.'
'Well,' said William kindly, 'whenever you have time, come to me, and I
will give you lessons.'
The young man approached her, holding out his hand, but the girl slipped
away from him and opened the door.
'I think,' he said in a whisper, 'that you might give me a kiss after all
this valuable information.'
'Oh, Mr. William!' cried Susy, horrified.
He stepped forward and tried to catch her, but the girl was too nimble
for him, and sprang out into the passage.
'Surely,' protested William, 'this is getting information under false
pretences; I expected my fee, you know.'
'And you shall have it,' said the girl, laughing softly, 'when I get ten
per cent. on my money.'
'Egad!' said William to himself as he entered his room again, 'I will see
that you get it. She's as clever an outside broker.'
When young Longworth had left for his office, Susy swept and dusted out
his room again, and then went downstairs.
'Where's the mistress?' she asked a fellow-servant.
'In the library,' was the answer, and to the library Susy went, entering
the room without knocking, much to the amazement of Edith Longworth, who
sat near the window with a book in her lap.
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