"Yes;—it's a large sum of money. It's a large affair. I'm in it to rather more than that, I believe."
"How are you to get people to drink it?" she asked after a pause.
"By telling them that they ought to drink it. Advertise it. It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. Only the interest on the money expended increases in so large a ratio in accordance with the magnitude of the operation! If you spend a few hundreds in advertising you throw them away. A hundred thousand pounds well laid out makes a certainty of anything."
"What am I to get to show for my money;—I mean immediately, you know?"
"Registered shares in the Company."
"The Bios Company?"
"No;—we did propose to call ourselves Parker and Co., limited. I think we shall change the name. They will probably use my name. Lopez and Co., limited."
"But it's all for Bios?"
"Oh yes;—all for Bios."
"And it's to come from Central Africa?"