“Offer you some fine inducements,” said the clerk, handing over a folded paper.
Oliver opened the circular, and pretended to look it over.
“Now, Dodge, about this Aurora mine,” he heard Colonel Mendix say, and immediately he was all attention.
CHAPTER VII.
A CONVERSATION OF IMPORTANCE.
Oliver Bright was sure that he was going to hear something of importance, and he determined that not a word of the conversation between Colonel Mendix and Ezra Dodge should escape him. With his eyes fixed upon the circular in his hand, he kept his ears wide open for whatever might be said.
“Yes, about the Aurora mine,” rejoined Ezra Dodge. “I want to know if you have a clear title to it?”
“Why, of course—that is, I and another have.”
“Then that’s all right. I wanted to know what I was loaning money on.”
“Didn’t I give enough other security?” asked the colonel, with a slight sneer in his tones.