"How will it do so?" asked Grace.
"In three months that stock will be worth £5 per share," said Sedgwick. "See what it will require to produce 60,000 shares to fulfill their contract."
"What did they obtain from Jack?" asked Grace.
"Almost £90,000," said Sedgwick.
"Well," said Grace, "I know very little of business, but it seems to me if they would make that good with the year's interest, it would be about right, inasmuch as it is a family matter."
"You little bunch of wisdom and justice!" said Sedgwick. "To make them do just that thing was what I started to Africa for."
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CONVALESCENT.
The "Pallas" had been in port twenty days before Jordan began to sit up, a few minutes at a time. He was still very weak, but his face was transfigured by an almost divine light. It was reflected radiance from the eyes of Margaret Hazleton.