I think that his client would find out his make in laying his case before him, and would take warning and withdraw it in time to save himself from probable disaster.
I had taken up my residence in San Francisco about a year before the time I have just been speaking of.

One day I got a tip from Mr.Camp, a bold man who was always making big fortunes in ingenious speculations and losing them again in the course of six months by other speculative ingenuities.

Camp told me to buy some shares in the Hale and Norcross.

I bought fifty shares at three hundred dollars a share.

I bought on a margin, and put up twenty per cent.