Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 19, 2025
"If I've any other reasons, they don't concern you," he added in a different tone. "All I expect from you is to do your part judiciously, and, as a matter of fact, it will have to be done that way." He went out, and left Wannop sitting with the light of a somewhat grim satisfaction in his eyes.
"Then," remarked the first speaker, "it is quite likely that you will find yourself in a minority of one." "Mr. Weston can count on at least one supporter," said Wannop, shortly. Then there was an awkward silence, until one of the others thrust back his chair. "It's becoming quite clear that we can't go on," he said. "This concern was started wrong.
The successful contractor appreciated ability, especially when it was of the practical order, but perhaps he was right in rating character higher. "Yes," said Weston quietly, "I quite expect that will be the case." "Have you had any other offer?" "Wannop made me a conditional one. Pending investigation, he talks of floating a company here or in London.
I think I attached as much weight to them as I did to the specimens. I felt that was a man that I could put my money on." "You feel that now?" "I do," Wannop admitted. "In fact, it's hard to believe he will be beaten, though the rest of us are going back on him." Stirling nodded in a manner which might have meant anything. "So your stock is being sold down?" he said. "As I pointed out to Mr.
Weston sat still a moment, and then rose with an air of weariness. "Well," he said, "I'm going back to the mine tomorrow. We'll hold on as long as possible." He left; and a few minutes later Stirling came in. He sat down and handed Wannop a cigar. "Now," he said, "we have got to talk." "If you'd come a little earlier you'd have met Weston." "Yes," said Stirling, "that's just why I didn't.
Now, where's the trouble?" "I'll tell you though to some extent it's a breach of confidence. It's the shortage of money, and the fact that our stock is tumbling down." "Tumbling down?" Wannop smiled. "I might have said being clubbed down." "I want to get the thing quite straight," said Stirling. "What made you take up this mine?" "Mr. Weston's representations.
Stirling was sitting in the latter's office at the time, and he made no sign of retiring when they entered. "We should like a few minutes' conversation with you about the Grenfell stock," said one of the strangers. "Naturally, we'd prefer to have it alone." Wannop looked at Stirling, who smiled and answered the man. "I'm afraid you'll have to put up with my presence," he said.
They celebrated the occasion that night with the most elaborate meal Devine could prepare, and invited as many as possible of their neighbors, who also had struck what promised to be payable milling ore. As it happened, their satisfaction was fully warranted, for a few days after Weston's letter arrived in Montreal two gentlemen connected with western mines called on Wannop.
The men who shrink from candor, lest they should give themselves away, not infrequently waste a good deal of time wondering what the other person means, and then decide incorrectly. "They are," said Wannop. "Besides several small lots, one parcel of six hundred shares held in England changed hands, though that was when we stood near par and the stock was only beginning to break away.
In fact, I'd undertake to do the work at not more than two-thirds of the cost." "This company," said the first speaker, severely, "has no intention of taking up road-making and the building of flumes and dams. It has, as I think you will admit, gentlemen, quite enough already on its hands." There was some show of agreement from all but Wannop, and Weston set his lips.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking