And
the next day he called for me and took me, and I invested about
five hundred dollars in them stocks--may be more. You see, we
sorter swopped stocks. You know I had ten shares in the Peacock
Copper Mine, that you was once secretary of."
"But those shares are not worth a cent. The whole thing exploded
ten years ago."
"That's so, may be; YOU say so. But then I didn't know anything
more about Communipaw Central, or the Naphtha Gaslight Company, and
so I thought it was a square game. Only I realized on the stocks I
bought, and I kem up outer Wall Street about four hundred dollars
better. You see it was a sorter risk, after all, for them Peacock
stocks MIGHT come up!"
I looked into his face: it was immeasurably serene and commonplace.
I began to be a little afraid of the man, or, rather, of my want of
judgment of the man; and after a few words we shook hands and
parted.
It was some months before I again saw the Man from Solano. When I
did, I found that he had actually become a member of the Stock
Board, and had a little office on Broad Street, where he transacted
a fair business.
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