If we carry on our plans at once, and lay this money out judiciously, all may come right." "It's Hobson's choice," the young man remarked.

"We must try some bold stroke of the sort.

Have you chosen the right sort of men for agents?
You should have men of some standing to set such reports going.
They would have more weight then." John Girdlestone shook his head despondingly.

"How am I to get a man of any standing to do such a piece of business ?" he said.
"Nothing easier," answered Ezra, with a cynical laugh.

"I could pick out a score of impecunious fellows from the clubs who would be only too glad to earn a hundred or two in any way you can mention.