What is it that you're going to advise your clients to leave alone, please, Mr.White ?" "British and Imperial Granaries." The young man--the Honourable James Wilshaw--suddenly dropped his eyeglass and assumed an anxious expression.
"I say, what's wrong with them, White ?" he demanded.

"They're large holders of wheat, and wheat's going up all the time." "Wheat's going up because they're buying," was the dry comment.

"Directly they leave off it will drop, and when it begins to drop, look out for a slump in B.& I.'s." The young man relapsed into a seat by Sarah's side and swung an immaculately trousered leg.
"But look here, Maurice, my boy, why should they leave off buying, eh ?" he enquired.
"Because," the other explained, "there is a little more wheat in the world than the B.& I.have money for." "I can give you a further reason," Kendrick intervened, "for leaving B.
& I.'s severely alone.

There is at the present moment on his way to this country---if he is not already here, by the by--one of the shrewdest and finest speculators in the world, who is coming over on purpose to do what up to now our own men seem to have funked--fight the B.& I.tooth and nail." "Who's that, Ken ?" Maurice White asked with interest.

"Why haven't I heard about him before ?" "Because," Kendrick replied, "he wrote and told me that he was coming and marked his letter 'Private,' so I thought that I had better keep it to myself.