I should say that Da Souza would try all he could to keep him in the background until he had disposed of his shares." "And how does your stock hold ?" "I don't know," Trent said.

"I only landed yesterday.

I'm pretty certain though that there's no market for the whole of Da Souza's holding." "He has a large interest, then ?" "A very large one," Trent answered drily.
"I should like," Francis said, "to understand this matter properly.

As a matter of fact I suppose that Monty is entitled to half the purchase-money you received for the Company." Trent assented.
"It isn't that I grudge him that," he said, "although, with the other financial enterprises I have gone into, I don't know how I should raise half a million of money to pay him off.

But don't you see my sale of the charter to the Company is itself, Monty being alive, an illegal act.
The title will be wrong, and the whole affair might drift into Chancery, just when a vigorous policy is required to make the venture a success.
If Monty were here and in his right mind, I think we could come to terms, but, when I saw him last at any rate, he was quite incapable, and he might become a tool to anything.