29/62 You can add, if you like, that another ten will be ready if wanted when this lot is spent. This time, I think, I am doing him a good one." "You are, indeed," said Iris's father enthusiastically. "The unallotted capital he is taking up will be worth four times its face value in two years." "All the more reason to make his holding twenty instead of ten," roared the Yorkshireman. You talk about dropping proceedings against that precious earl whom I saw to-day. |