"Oh! I know you can," said Lindy; "you are wealthy—"
"I beg your pardon," interposed Quincy, "I am not what they call a wealthy young man; the fact that my father is possessed of a large fortune has probably given rise to the incorrect impression just repeated by you."
"I understand," said Lindy, with a laugh. "What I meant to say was, that you are undoubtedly acquainted with wealthy gentlemen, who know the best ways of investing money. I find my money a great trouble to me," she continued. "I had $25,000 invested in a first mortgage, but the property has been sold and the money repaid to me, and I don't know what to do with it."
"The obvious thing to do," remarked Quincy, "is to invest it at once, so that it will begin paying you interest."
"That is just what I wished to see you about," responded Lindy. "How would you advise me to invest it?" she asked.
"I would not presume," replied Quincy, "to give positive advice in such a case. I would go either to Foss & Follansbee, or Braithwaite & Mellen, or perhaps Rothwell Brothers & Co., look over the securities they have for sale and make my own selection, if I were in your place."
Lindy was manifestly disappointed at Quincy's polite refusal to recommend any particular security, but she evidently realized that further argument or entreaty would be useless, so she quickly changed the subject by remarking that her mother had considerable money invested, but that she was a woman who never took any advice and never gave any.
"I wonder who my mother is going to leave her money to? Do you know, Mr. Sawyer?"
Quincy replied that he did not. "But she did tell me that by the terms of your brother's will you were not to inherit it."