Since we can't float the thing on the market at present, we have formed a small private syndicate to develop the property, though we may sell out in a year or two if you can make the undertaking commercially successful.

I think you could count on the purchasers' continuing operations." "Have you considered what Lansing's attitude may be ?" "It won't matter.

He has gone out of the business, convinced that the thing's no good; he cleared off most of his rubber shares, for a similar reason.

This raises another point--the original company's possessions lie in the same region, though ruled by another state, and things are going badly there.

If you could get across and see what could be done, we would pay an extra fee." Singleton lighted a cigar and leaned back in his chair with a thoughtful expression, and for a minute or two they left him alone.
They were keen business men, but they knew that their usual methods would not serve them with this shabbily-dressed, self-possessed botanist.
"Well," he said at length, "your suggestion rather appeals to me, but there's the difficulty that another matter claims my attention.