TWO WISE HEADS TOGETHER.
“What would you think, John, to see the Morrison at 75.”
“I should think very strange.”
“Stranger things have happened though, John. I have a mind to move in the Morrison, what say you to join me?”
“What do you propose?”
“Why, you have the means,—the stock may be had at twenty, and a hundred thousand dollars would control the whole of it. It must be done quietly; and then by contracting on time we should have the power to deliver without loss when we sold; and by making three contracts to receive to one to deliver, we can make them pay whatever difference we choose.”
“That would be too much power to get in our hands, Dan, would it not?”
“True, it would not answer to trust every man with so much; but in your hands and mine, I think we would not abuse it.”
“What amount of exaction do you think would be an abuse of such power?”
“Why, it would be wrong to take more than two hundred per cent. profit, unless we got hold of some one who could well afford it.”