(Signed)
Barrifield.
Perner read it, and it was handed to each of the others in turn. Then they looked at each other. Van Dorn said pleasantly:
"Why, yes; that's so. Capitalize! I hadn't thought of that. Stony, get up here and capitalize!"
Livingstone dug down in his pockets and brought up fifty-six cents.
"All right," he said. "That's every nickel I've got in the world. Let's capitalize!"
Almost immediately there came another telegram from Barrifield.
To the "Whole Family," New York.
Don't sell any of my stock.
(Signed)
Barrifield.
This promptly sent Perner off into another fit of hysterics.