"Fifty thousand a year!" he repeated slowly.

"'Bije! 'Bije!" "Yes.

And three years ago the Akrae Company sold its lease, sold out completely to the Para people, for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars." "Godfreys mighty! Well," after a moment, "that's what I'd call a middlin' fair profit on a twenty thousand dollar investment--not to mention the dividends." "Captain," Sylvester leaned forward now; "Captain," he repeated, "it is that sale and the dividends which are troubling us.

I told you that the Akrae Company was organized with two hundred and fifty shares of stock.
Your brother held one hundred in his own name and fifty transferred to him by his dummy, Craven.

What I did not tell you was that there were another hundred shares, held by someone, someone who paid ten thousand dollars for them--we know that--and was, therefore, entitled to two-fifths of every dollar earned by the company during its existence, and two-fifths of the amount received for the sale of the lease.