“‘Yes, yes,’ we said. We knew of course that he was the managing director.
“He looked at us faintly and tried to speak.
“‘Give him a cordial,’ said Jarvis. But he found his voice.
“‘The value of that stock,’ he said, ‘is going to take a sudden—’
“His voice grew faint.
“‘Yes, yes,’ I whispered, bending over him (there were tears in both our eyes), ‘tell me is it going up, or going down?’
“‘It is going’—he murmured,—then his eyes closed—‘it is going—’
“‘Yes, yes,’ I said, ‘which?’
“‘It is going’—he repeated feebly and then, quite suddenly he fell back on the pillows and his soul passed. And we never knew which way it was going. It was very sad. Later on, of course, after he was dead, we knew, as everybody knew, that it went down.”