Well?
George Winter.
We had to plank down eighty thousand pounds within twenty-four hours or lose the mine.
Bennett.
It looked like a certainty.
George Winter.
At that moment it was impossible for us to raise anything like that sum. The bank held a hundred thousand pounds of bearer bonds for the Middlepool Investment Trust. They delivered them on an order signed by you, me, and Bennett. We borrowed on them and completed the purchase of a worthless mine.
Etchingham.
But I’ve never signed anything.
Bennett.