But never mind about Tilbury, Aleck, let's talk about something worldly.
It does seem to me that that mine is the place for the whole thirty.
What's the objection?"
"All the eggs in one basket--that's the objection."
"All right, if you say so. What about the other twenty?
What do you mean to do with that?"
"There is no hurry; I am going to look around before I do anything
with it."
"All right, if your mind's made up," signed Sally. He was deep
in thought awhile, then he said:
"There'll be twenty thousand profit coming from the ten a year
from now. We can spend that, can we, Aleck?"
Aleck shook her head.
"No, dear," she said, "it won't sell high till we've had the first
semi-annual dividend. You can spend part of that."
"Shucks, only THAT--and a whole year to wait! Confound it, I--"
"Oh, do be patient! It might even be declared in three months
--it's quite within the possibilities."
"Oh, jolly! oh, thanks!" and Sally jumped up and kissed his wife
in gratitude. "It'll be three thousand--three whole thousand!
how much of it can we spend, Aleck? Make it liberal!--do, dear,
that's a good fellow."
Aleck was pleased; so pleased that she yielded to the pressure and
conceded a sum which her judgment told her was a foolish extravagance
--a thousand dollars. Sally kissed her half a dozen times and even
in that way could not express all his joy and thankfulness.
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