“My dear fellow!”
“Yes, and we haven’t done anything in the market, except one miserable little operation.”
“And why do you think there is such a good chance?”
“Because there is, because everybody can see it,” said Alzugaray. “Prices are going to rise with this project of the Minister of Finance’s; they are going in for a big deal; everybody has been indiscreet, without meaning to be, and people on the market are buying and buying. Everybody is sure of a rise... and we are doing nothing.”
“We are doing nothing,” repeated Cæsar.
“But it is absurd.”
“What’s the date?”
“The twenty-second.”
“The evening of the twenty-seventh we will talk.”
“How mysterious you are, boy.”