Do you know General Packard?
Do you know C.P.

Hatch?
Do you know Miss Kitty Upjohn ?" "I shall be happy to make their acquaintance; I want to cultivate society." Tristram seemed restless and suspicious; he eyed his friend askance, and then, "What are you up to, any way ?" he demanded.

"Are you going to write a book ?" Christopher Newman twisted one end of his mustache a while, in silence, and at last he made answer.

"One day, a couple of months ago, something very curious happened to me.

I had come on to New York on some important business; it was rather a long story--a question of getting ahead of another party, in a certain particular way, in the stock-market.