"I don't know. I am only glad that we held out. That man knows that he robbed us."
"Well, that doesn't help us."
"Yes, it does. It helps me to know that he knows it."
"Who was it?" I asked.
"Oh, there was a syndicate. I only know the names of two of them—a man named Argand, and a man named Canter. And our lawyer was named McSheen."
Argand was a name which I recalled in connection with Mr. Poole's interest in the Railways in the case I have mentioned.
"Well, you held on to your stock. You have it now, then?" I foresaw a possible law-case against Argand, and wondered if he was the owner of the Argand Estate, which I had already heard of twice since my arrival.
"No," said one of them, "they bought up the stock of all the other people, and then they did something which cut us out entirely. What was it they did, sister?"
"Reorganized."
"And then we came on here to see about it, and spent everything else that we had in trying to get it back, but we lost our case. And since then——"