If you have that money invested, even if your investment is worth
three times now what it was then, you could not get a penny on it. Don't
you know the state of the London money market? Don't you know how close
money is? I thought perhaps you might have some portion of it yet, not
sunk in your silly investment, whatever it is. I have never asked you
what it was. You told me you would tell me, but you never have done so. I
looked on that money as lost. I look on it still as lost. If you can get
me a remnant of it, it will help me now more than the whole amount, or
double the amount, would have done at the time I gave it to you. What
have you done with the money? What is it invested in?'
'It is invested in a mine.'
'A mine. Of all things in the world in which to sink money, a mine is the
worst. Just what a woman or a fool would do! How do you expect to raise
money on a mine in the present state of the market? What, in the name of
wonder, made you put it into a mine? Whose mine did you buy?'
'I do not know whose it was, father, but I was willing to tell you all I
knew at the time you asked me and if you ask me now what mine I bought, I
will tell you.'
'Certainly I ask you. What mine did you buy?'
'I bought the mine for which John Kenyon was agent.'
The moment these words were said, her cousin sprang to his feet and
glared at her like a man demented.
'You bought that mine--you? Then Wentworth lied to me. He said a Mr.
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