He had actually paid a thousand pounds down in hard
cash, a commercial transaction which, as performed
by himself, he regarded as stupendous. It was
almost incredible to himself that he should have paid
any one a thousand pounds, but he had done it with
much difficulty,—having carried Dolly junior
with him all the way into the city,—in
the belief that he would thus put himself in the way
of making a continual and unfailing income. He
understood that as a director he would be always entitled
to buy shares at par, and, as a matter of course,
always able to sell them at the market price.
This he understood to range from ten to fifteen and
twenty per cent, profit. He would have nothing
to do but to buy and sell daily. He was told
that...