If a good strong buyer, who could wait, were to take hold, it would help us as much as anything." "Quite sure ?" asked Stirling very dryly.
"Isn't it evident?
It would stiffen prices and scare off the Hogarth brokers.

What's more, it would steady my colleagues' nerves." "Yes," admitted Stirling, "it would do all that.

However, I want to suggest that that isn't quite enough.

Anyway, that's my view of it." They looked at each other steadily for a moment or two, and then Stirling made a little forceful gesture.
"Now," he said, "I'm going to take hold of this thing; and in the first place I'll give you an order on my bank for all the money that seems necessary.

You will take up some of that stock for me; and, as the Hogarth men will offer more freely as soon as they strike an actual buyer, in case prices stiffen you'll follow their lead and pitch the stock you bought on to the market." "Some men would consider that was playing the other people's game," commented Wannop, with a chuckle.
"It would be, in the meanwhile," said Stirling.