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"And I am ruined. My little stock is all gone. A mine worth £2,000,000 I sold for £2,000." And he went out. "What can we do?" asked Jenvie. "I expect a notice every moment to call at the broker's and settle." "Can we not assign our property?" asked Hamlin. "We could," said Jenvie, "but to-morrow we should all be looking through the bars of a prison."
The tunnel cuts the mine at a depth of 500 feet. The office of the company in London is No. , Street. The officers are John Browning, president; James Sedgwick, treasurer; Hugh McGregor, secretary; and these, with Thomas Jordan, make up the directory of the company." When, next morning, Jenvie, Hamlin and Stetson read the above in the Times, they were filled with consternation.
"And even Grace was in the conspiracy to rob us," said Hamlin, in an injured tone. "She is a brave, true woman, I think," said Jenvie, "and as it looks to me, she is the only one to whom we can now appeal." "May be so," said Hamlin. "Her husband worships her, I am told." "Suppose we go to your house and persuade your wife to go and bring her home where we can see her," said Jenvie.
"I have no certain plans," was the answer. "I have just lived on an impossible dream, you know, of making £5,000, then going back, and if Rose Jenvie is not married to try to steal her away. If I could make a good bit of money I would buy a place, a big tract of downs in Devonshire. I could, by draining it and running it my way, make it double in value in three years."
So he wrote a note to the Bank to honor the orders of Jenvie & Hamlin until further instructions, turned the check over to Hamlin and told him to manage it. The days went by.
"How much did you keep thinking through so long a time would be sufficient to accumulate before you could come back and 'try to steal Rose Jenvie?" asked Sedgwick. "O yes, I know," said Browning; "but then it was different." "What have you told Rose about your money matters?" asked Sedgwick. "Not one word," was the reply.
"Who will give away the bride?" asked Sedgwick. The question seemed to startle Browning. "That reminds me," he said, doubtingly, "that I have neither seen my governor nor old man Jenvie. I left home telling mother and Grace that before I went home to live I would have to be invited by the governor. And that reminds me, too, Jim, there must not be a word about my money.
The three consulted in private for a moment, and then Jenvie called to Emanuel, who was half out of the door, that he might have the stock at three pennies for cash, but begged him not to mention that he had purchased it. Emanuel paid the money and took the stock, and then said: "You ask me not to mention this business. Are you crazy? Suppose Mr.
"We must take in enough stock to cover our shortage at once," said Jenvie, "even if we have to pay £1 per share for it." So a messenger was sent to the office of the broker through which the stock had been shorted, to buy at any price up to £1. He returned with the information that the stock could be had, but the price was £6 per share.
He had, besides, one wound which he received with ze Boers coming out to the coast from the mine. They are two devils. Ten or a dozen Boers attacked them to get the first month's bullion, and they two killed five of them, and drove ze rest away." "I wish the Boers had killed them both," said Jenvie. "They are hard men to kill," said Emanuel.
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