So much for the superior system of that country.

Now, take a map.

Here is Hamburg, the great port of the Continent, and Berlin, the great Continental centre; and there is one railway only between the two.

What English railway can compare with this?
The shares are at 150.
But they must go to 300 in time unless the Prussian Government allows another railway, and that is not likely, and, if so, you will have two years to back out.

This is the best permanent investment of its class that offers on the face of the globe." Bartley invested timidly, but held for years, and the shares went up over 300 before he sold.
"Do not let your mind live in an island if your body does," was a favorite saying of William Hope; and we recommend it impartially to Britons and Bornese.
On one of Hope's visits Bartley complained he had nothing to do.