I'll ask you, as men with some knowledge of these matters, where's the price going to ?" One of the men sat down limply.
"What'll you take to hold the thing over until after settling day ?" he asked.
"In money ?" inquired Stirling, whose face grew hard.

"If you put it that way, we'll call it half your personal estate." The second man, who saw that his companion had been injudicious, hastily broke in.
"No," he said; "in the shape of mutual accommodation.

Perhaps there's some little arrangement you might like us to make." Stirling laughed, "Anyway, why should you want to make an offer of that kind?
Suppose I held the certificate over, it wouldn't straighten things out for you.

You have to deliver to the people who acted on my behalf so much Grenfell stock, and you can't get it--now." "That's true," was the dejected answer.

"What are you going to do ?" "That," said Stirling, grimly, "is a matter that must stand over until I can send for the man who found the Grenfell mine.