“There’s only one person who could buy it back, and that’s Crumweather.”
“How could he buy it back?”
“He could suddenly discover that all the sales had been illegal transactions, have the salesmen go around and tell the prospects that the idea wasn’t feasible, and that the Commissioner of Corporations had ordered them to return the money received from stock sales.”
“How much would it cost to do that?” he asked dryly. “I’d say about half a million dollars.”
“I think we could do it for five hundred dollars.”
“What was that figure?” he asked.
“Five hundred dollars.”
He said, “Either you’re crazy, or I am.”
“Is it worth five hundred to you?”
“It’d be worth a cool fifty thousand.”