Mr.Gwynne's earnest request that he should become the treasurer of the company Mr.Waring-Gaunt felt constrained in the meantime to decline.

He already had too many irons in the fire.

But he was willing to become a director and to aid the scheme in any way possible.

Before the end of the month such was the energy displayed by the new secretary of the company in the disposing of the stock it was announced that only a small block of about $25,000 remained unsold.

A part of this Mr.Waring-Gaunt urged his brother-in-law to secure.
"Got twenty thousand myself, you know--looks to me like a sound proposition--think you ought to go in--what do you say, eh, what ?" "Very well; get ten or fifteen thousand for me," said his brother-in-law.
Within two days Mr.Waring-Gaunt found that the stock had all been disposed of.