“But suppose I’d offer you a chance to stand on the other side of the counter and take part of the change?”
“I’d let you stand right here and talk a while. What’s the matter?”
“Haven’t capital enough,” explained Wix. “I think I refused to take a trade of yours one time, just because I had to play safe. I had to be in position to pay off all my losses or quit business.”
“How much are you increasing?” asked Glidden, interested.
“A twenty-five-thousand-dollar stock company: two hundred and fifty shares at a hundred dollars each.”
“I might take a share or two,” said Sam.
“You’ll take twenty,” declared Wix, quite sure of himself. “I want four incorporators besides myself, and I want you to be one of them.”
“Is that getting me the stock any cheaper?”
“Fifty per cent.; two thousand dollars’ worth for a thousand. After we five incorporators are in we’ll raise the price to par and not sell a share for a cent less.”