“Your brother is well provided for, and can make his way.”
“Oh, hang him, yes. Fortune’s favourite, and no mistake.”
“Then what would you say if—But one moment. You tell me, as man to man, to whom the business would be vital, that the ‘White Virgin’ mine is really a big thing?”
“I tell you, as man to man, that it will be a tremendously big thing.”
“Good!” said the lawyer slowly, and in a low voice. “Then what would you say if I put you in the way of making a few hundred thousand pounds?”
“And yourself too?”
“Of course.”
“Then never mind what I should say. Can you do it?”
“Yes. You and I are about the only two men who could work that affair rightly; and as the whole business is to others a speculation, if they lose—well, they have gambled, and must take their chance.”
“Of course. But—speak out.”