"Well," said the other, with a little smile, "it depends. There are goods, like eggs and oranges, you don't want to keep."
"And a good market in England for whatever the Colonials have no particular use for?"
The stranger laughed good-humoredly. "Did you ever strike any real good salt pork in Canada?"
"No," said Brooke, decisively, "I certainly never did."
"Then where does the best bacon you get in England come from? Same with cheese—and other things."
"Including mines?"
"Well, when any of them look like paying it's generally your folk who get them. Know anything about the Dayspring?"
"Not a great deal," Brooke said, guardedly. "I have been in the workings, and it is for sale."
"Ore worth anything at the smelter?"
Now Brooke was perfectly certain that such a man as his companion appeared to be would attach no great importance to any information obtained by chance from a stranger.