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The shareholders in the Tafila Copper Mining Company, Limited, must not look for a dividend of more than six, or at the utmost seven, per cent. "Well," interrupted Mascarin, "what do you think of this for a beginning?" "It seems fair enough," answered De Croisenois, "but suppose others than those whose names you have in your black list take shares, what do you say we are to do then?"
By this time the banker had contrived to reassure the doctor. "Besides," he added, "everything is going on well, even our Tafila mines. I have taxed our people, according to their means, from one to twenty thousand francs, and we are certain of a million." The doctor rubbed his hands, and a delicious prospect of enjoyments stretched out before him. "I have seen Catenac," continued Martin Rigal.
And my esteemed friend, Henri, has not a five-franc piece to keep the devil out of his pocket." The face of the young artist expressed such blank surprise that Gaston burst into a loud laugh. "You look just as I did when I read it. Henri de Croisenois, the chairman of a Company! Why, if you had been elected Pope, I should not have been more surprised. Tafila Copper Mines! What a joke!
He found it there, in a most conspicuous position, with all its advantages most temptingly set forth. Nothing was wanting; and there was even a woodcut of Tafila, in Algiers, which represented the copper mines in full working operation; while at the top, the name of the chairman, the Marquis de Croisenois, stood out in letters some six inches in height.
Gaston did nothing, but talked continually. "And now I must tell you the joke of the day. Henri de Croisenois, one of my dearest friends, has absolutely launched a Company." Andre nearly let fall a bottle, which he was about to place upon the table. "Who told you this?" asked he quickly. "Who told me? Why, a great big flaming poster. Tafila Copper Mines; capital, four millions.
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