“If I find the mine worth working and open up for business, how would you like to go out there and work for me?”
“I'd like it very much, Mr. Vane.”
“Very well, I'll bear that in mind,” answered the possessor of the mining shares.
“Why don't you buy up the rest of the mining shares first?”
“I am going to do so—if I can locate them.”
“Perhaps the owners will sell cheap.”
“I shall explain the situation and make a fair offer. I do not believe in any underhand work,” was the ready answer.
“Then you are not like some men I have met,” said Joe, and told about Ulmer Montgomery and his so-called antiquities.
“That man will never amount to anything, Joe—mark my words. He will always be a hanger-on as we call them, in the business world.”
“I believe you, sir.”