human
Take a cigar, if you feel like it, Mr. Brooke. We have got to have a talk,
gpt
There's your cheque for the tramway. I'll ask you for a receipt, he said.
human
Make up an account of what the dam has cost you to-morrow, and we'll try to arrange the thing so's to suit both of us.
gpt
It is by no means finished, sir.
human
Well, said Devine, drily,
gpt
I'm not quite sure it ever will be. The mine no longer belongs to me. It's part of the Dayspring Consolidated Mineral Properties. I've been working the thing up quietly for quite a while now, and I've a cable from London that the deal's put through.
human
You have sold it out to English company promoters?
gpt
Not exactly! I'm taking so many thousand dollars down, and a controlling share of the stock. I'm also the boss director, with full power to run operations as appears advisable at the mines. How does the deal strike you?
human
Since you ask for my opinion, I fancy I should have preferred a good many dollars, and very little stock.
gpt
You believe Allonby's a crank?
human
Other people do. On my part, I'm not quite sure of it. Still, it seems to me that the men who spend their money to prove him right will run a tolerably heavy risk, especially as, so far, at least, there appears to be no ore that's worth reduction in the mine, so far as it has been opened up.
gpt
How do you know what is in the Dayspring?
human
I don't think that point's important, he said.
gpt
You, no doubt, had a purpose in telling me as much as you have done?