Then her dear little intellectually great Chapman was such a jewel of a husband, and was so clever at inventing the means of making a fortune for other people.
The brain of Nyack was terribly disordered over the fortunes that were to be made in a month for all who invested in Kidd Discovery stock.

Even the good Dominie, led away by the temptation, had invested all his savings, and had his pockets full of Chapman's "equivalents," from which he looked for a fortune in a very short time.

Finally the innocent settlers began to regard Chapman as a great genius, who had invented this new way of making their fortunes out of sheer goodness.

"I want to tell you, my good friends," he would say to them, patronizingly, "you will appreciate me better as we become better acquainted.

Invest your money, and there's a fortune for you all." And they took his word, and invested their money, and, many of them, everything they had.
We must go back into the city now.