To-day they stand at twenty.

He gave me five thousand pounds for those shares.

To-day he could walk into your stock market and sell them for one hundred thousand.

That is the way money is made in Africa, Mr.Mangan, where innocents like me are to be found every day." Dominey poured out a glass of wine and passed it to their visitor.
"Come," he said, "we all have our ups and downs.

Africa owes you nothing, Seaman." "I have done well in my small way," Seaman admitted, fingering the stem of his wineglass, "but where I have had to plod, Sir Everard here has stood and commanded fate to pour her treasures into his lap." The lawyer was listening with a curious interest and pleasure to this half bantering conversation.