"
"By George, but it sounds good, Aleck! Then the shares will be worth
--how much? And when?"
"About a year. They'll pay ten per cent. half yearly, and be
worth thirty thousand. I know all about it; the advertisement
is in the Cincinnati paper here."
"Land, thirty thousand for ten--in a year! Let's jam in the whole
capital and pull out ninety! I'll write and subscribe right now
--tomorrow it maybe too late."
He was flying to the writing-desk, but Aleck stopped him and put
him back in his chair. She said:
"Don't lose your head so. WE mustn't subscribe till we've got
the money; don't you know that?"
Sally's excitement went down a degree or two, but he was not
wholly appeased.
"Why, Aleck, we'll HAVE it, you know--and so soon, too. He's probably
out of his troubles before this; it's a hundred to nothing he's
selecting his brimstone-shovel this very minute. Now, I think--"
Aleck shuddered, and said:
"How CAN you, Sally! Don't talk in that way, it is perfectly scandalous."
"Oh, well, make it a halo, if you like, _I_ don't care for his outfit,
I was only just talking. Can't you let a person talk?"
"But why should you WANT to talk in that dreadful way? How would
you like to have people talk so about YOU, and you not cold yet?"
"Not likely to be, for ONE while, I reckon, if my last act was
giving away money for the sake of doing somebody a harm with it.
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