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"That is one of my reasons," Wingrave admitted, "but I had a special purpose in coming to America. During my enforced seclusion I made the acquaintance of a man called Hardwell. He was an Englishman, but he had lived in America for some years, and had got into trouble over some company business. We had some conversation, and it is upon his information that I am now going to act."
"He is trustworthy?" Aynesworth asked. "I take the risk," Wingrave answered coolly. "There is a small copper mine in Utah called the Royal Hardwell Copper Mine. The shares are hundred dollar ones, and there are ten thousand of them. They are scarcely quoted now, as the mine has become utterly discredited. Hardwell managed this himself with a false report.
Wingrave at that time was the possessor of six thousand shares in the Royal Hardwell Copper Mine, which had cost him, on an average, two dollars twenty-five. The news of the dealing, however, had got about, and although derision was the chief sentiment amongst the brokers, the price steadily mounted.
"Have we finished this miserable business?" Aynesworth asked. "For the present," Wingrave answered. "Mr. Malcolmson will supply you with a copy of the accounts. See that Hardwell is credited with a quarter share of the profits. Our dealings are over for the present. Be prepared to start on Saturday for the West. We are going to look for those bears." "But the mine?" Aynesworth exclaimed.
"Open an account to Hardwell in it; a quarter of all the shares I buy are to be in his name, and a quarter of all the profits I make in dealing in the shares is to be credited to him." "A fairly generous arrangement for Mr. Hardwell," Aynesworth remarked. "There is nothing generous about it," Wingrave answered coldly. "It is the arrangement I made with him, and to which I propose to adhere.
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