“Humph! What is quite so? I want to know about that stock of the Wellmouth Development Company.”
“Yes.... Yes, certainly, I know.”
“That Captain—um—What's-his-name, the picturesque old lunatic with the whiskers—Hallett, I mean—made a statement that was, to say the least, surprising. I presume he was crazy. That was the most weird collection of insanity that I ever saw or heard. Ha, ha! Oh, dear!... Well, never mind. But what did old Hallett mean by saying he had sold YOU his four hundred shares of that stock?”
Galusha closed his eyes. He smiled sadly.
“He meant that he had—ah—sold them to me,” he answered.
“LOOSH!”
“Yes.”
“Loosh, are you crazy, too?”
“Very likely. I often think I may be. Yes, I bought the—ah—stock.”
“You bought the—YOU? Loosh, sit down.”