I don't say we didn't let the shares drop a couple of points further than they needed to, and Bamberger bought any of it that happened to be lying around, and the more he bought the quicker it wanted to go down, because people said there was going to be trouble and an investigation.

But if we'd gone on, lots of people would have been ruined, and yet we didn't just see how to stop it sharp, till Bamberger started his scheme.

Do you understand all that ?' The lady nodded gravely.
'You make it clear,' she said.
'Well, I thought it was a good scheme,' continued her companion, 'and as the girl said she didn't mind, we told we were engaged.

That settled things pretty quick.

The shares went up again in forty-eight hours, and as we'd bought for cash we made the points, and the other people were short and lost.