“What we think you should do is to give a public demonstration of your churn.”
“By all means,” says Mr. Kinderhook.
“And the folks rather think that no money should be paid over to you until they know the churn will work.”
“They’re perfectly right,” says Mr. Kinderhook.
“So here’s what our proposition is. The folks will pay the money into the bank, and you will deposit the stock with the bank. Then you give a demonstration of the churn, and the minute a committee says the churn will do what you say it will the bank will deliver the stock to the purchasers and the money to you.”
“I should have proposed exactly that if you hadn’t. I should have done so before, but I didn’t come here to sell stock, you understand. The people were so eager to buy—”
“Of course,” says Captain Winton. “When will you be ready to give your demonstration?”
“Whenever you gentlemen notify me you are ready. You must give me a day or so to make preparations, because when I demonstrate this churn I want to do it to a turn.”
“Very well,” says Captain Winton, “and thank you.”
They all shook hands and that ended it. Catty and I walked off, and Catty says: “We got to act pretty quick. No tellin’ what day they’ll have that demonstration, and we got to be ready.”