‘The difference is in your favour.’
‘In my favour?’
‘Yes, listen to this. “The mining markets, both the South African and the Australian, opened dull, but grew more animated as the day proceeded, prices closing at the best. Out crops upon the Rand mark a general advance of one-sixteenth to one-eighth. The chief feature in the Australian section was a sharp advance of five-eighths in El Dorados, upon a telegram that the workings had been pumped dry.” Crosse, I congratulate you.’
‘I can really sell them for more than I gave?’
‘I should think so. You have two hundred of them, and a profit of ten shillings on each.’
‘Maude, we’ll have the whisky and the soda. Harrison, you must have a drink. Why, that’s a hundred pounds.’
‘More than a hundred.’
‘Without my paying anything?’
‘Not a penny.’
‘When does the Exchange open to-morrow?’