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"Listen, Maggie: I'll spill you the whole idea. I'd have told you before, but it's developed rather sudden, and I've not had a real chance, and, besides, I knew you'd be all for it. Jimmie and I have canned that stock-selling scheme for good unless an easy chance for it develops later. Our big idea now is to put YOU across!"
A party came up yesterday and took one look at it and grabbed it right off the bat, and as soon as old Murray gets in to his ore they're going to capitalize the Burro for a million. Fine name that, for stock-selling known all over the world, in England, Paris and everywhere but I made 'em come through with a thousand dollars cash, so Drusilla could have a good stake.
It has suffered from great fires and losses, but it has taken care of its affairs in such a way that it has not found it necessary to appeal to the general public to place blocks of bonds or stock; it has used no underwriting syndicates or stock-selling schemes in any form, and it has always managed to finance new oil field operations when called upon.
Stock-selling game; going to unload the whole thing on one sucker, and we've got the sucker picked out. Besides you and Barney and me, there's Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt in it a classy bunch all right. And we think that for the woman end we'll take in Mae Gorham. She's clever and innocent-eyed " "But I thought you were going to take me in!" protested Maggie.
"So Brooks came around to talk it over with you, eh?" Bill sneered. "Told you it was all on the square, did he? Explained it all very plausibly, I suppose. Probably suggested that you try smoothing me down, too. It would be like 'em." "He did explain about this stock-selling business," Hazel replied defensively. "And I can't see why you find it necessary to make a fuss.
Ford turned away and looked out upon the stock-selling pandemonium with unseeing eyes. The chance the heaven-sent hour that strikes only once in a life-time for the builders of empire had come: and he was only waiting for the arrival of the president to find himself rudely thrust aside from the helm of events. "No, Mr. Ford; there is no explanation that will explain away the incriminating fact.
Anyway, here it is: You got the essentials, up to a certain point, from Brooks. But he didn't tell it all his kind never does, not by a long shot. They, the four of them, it seems, held a meeting as soon as I shipped out that gold and put through that stock-selling scheme. That was legitimate. I couldn't restrain them from that, being a hopeless minority of one.
And busy in mind was he when the stars were out and camp was pitched. He lay with his head on his saddle, his pipe in his teeth, his thoughts withdrawn from his business of stock-selling and centred elsewhere.
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