Ben was curious to know what these two men were talking about, so he sat down as near as possible, in the hope of learning something.—Page [295].
Ben Bruce.
“Is he the only customer who gives you trouble?”
“Not by any manner of means. To tell the truth, Barlow, Boston is getting too hot to hold me. I have made a pretty good trip to New York, and now I am prepared to carry out an old plan of mine.”
“How is that?”
“In the first place I have been out to Nyack to interview a young man of more money than brains, and I have in my pocket a check for twenty-five hundred dollars received in return for stock.”
“Good! You’re a sharp one, Ezra. Is it the same old stock?”
“Yes, but the certificates are very handsome. I have ordered some new ones. They look fine, as I have already told you. Well, now, I have got together about six thousand dollars, and I shall take the next steamer for Liverpool.”
“Leaving your victims in the lurch?”
“That’s about the size of it.”