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"Hm yes! very enticing," answered Kovroff. "A fine chance for anyone who has the money." "I would not object! I would not object!" protested Shadursky. "Suppose you let me become acquainted with your friend." "You? Well " And Kovroff considered; "if you wish. Why not?
The charcoal glowed white hot, the dust ran together and disappeared, and in its place, when the charcoal had cooled a little, and the amateur chemist presented it to Prince Shadursky, the prince saw a little ball of gold lying in a crevice of the charcoal, such as might easily have formed under the heat of the blow-pipe.
Prince Shadursky immediately finished dressing, ordered his carriage, and went out with the supposititious Valyajnikoff. They drove to a shabby hotel and went to a dingy room. "This is my poor abode. I am only here on the wing, so to speak. I humbly request you to be seated," Mr. Escrocevitch said obsequiously. "Not to lose precious time, perhaps your excellency would like to look at my wares?
This is how it was: He bought gold dust for forty thousand rubles, and six weeks later got rid of it in Hamburg for sixty thousand. Whatever you may say, fifty per cent on your capital in a month and a half is pretty good business." "Deuce take it! A pretty profitable bargain, without a doubt!" cried Shadursky, jumping from his chair. "It would just suit me!
So it is a bargain?" And he held out his hand to Kovroff. "How a bargain?" objected the cautious Sergei Antonovitch. "I am not personally concerned in the matter, and you must admit, my dear prince, that I can make no promises for my acquaintance." "I don't mean that!" cried Shadursky. "I only ask you to arrange for me to meet him.
In what way?" asked Shadursky. "Very simply. You buy the goods here, as I already said, much below the government price. So that to begin with you make a very profitable bargain. Then you go abroad with your wares and there, as soon as the exchange value of gold goes up, you can sell it at the nearest bank.
"Forgive me for asking you to do it all yourself, since it is not from any lack of politeness on my part, but simply in order that your excellency should be fully convinced that there is no deception." Saying this, he got his implements ready and lit the lamp. The blow-pipe came into action. Valyajnikoff made the experiment, and Shadursky attentively followed every movement.
I assume that the government price is known to your excellency?" "But I am willing to take two hundred rubles a pound. I can't take a kopeck less, and even so I am making a reduction of nearly a hundred rubles the pound." "All right!" assented Shadursky. "That will amount to " he went on, knitting his brows, "forty-five pounds at two hundred rubles a pound "
The two Princes Shadursky, father and son, both lost heavily. They sat opposite Sergei Kovroff, and between them sat Baroness von Doring, who played in alliance with them.
The chief thing is, that our problem is solved in the most decisive manner. You and I are pretty fair judges of human nature, so we may be pretty sure that we shall always find purchasers, and I suggest that we make a beginning on young Prince Shadursky. How we shall get him into it is my business. I'll tell you later on. But how do you like the general idea of my plan?"
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