The Wedge of Gold

edgwick approached him, and holding out the bit of lagging, said in a low voice: "Mr. Mackay, there are a few words written on that. Will you not kindly carry them to the surface and read them?"

$2,800 from one credit, and $3,200 from the other had been withdrawn. They looked at each other and smiled, but said nothing. Passing outside, they exchanged opinions and both concluded that if Mackay had bought the stock promptly, it m

inia had been placed to their credit, and that it was at their discretion to reali

0,000 at $4 per day,

er's step-daughter, and the downs

the lodging house to talk

aid Sedgwick, "I

d England,"

ression of our gratitude to

tender him half our

t once. They gained an instant interview with Mr. Mackay, and, thanking him warmly, told

that is too big a commission. How much did you

00 shares, and that the stock was

ay, "that will be $10

swered,

do not need any ready money at present, but there are a good many sick and bruised miners down in the hospital. If, when you sell, you can see your way cl

rs down in the mine, and I knew if the money should be lost you would neither of you reproach me. But I called you back to tell you that while I do not think there is any hurry about selling your s

e came in, and th

then, and both went back to work

y saw a new great quartz mill being erected, but they saw something else which pleased them much more, which was that the more the great ore body was sunk and drifted upon, the bigger it grew. In the early winter of 1874-5, the stock began to cl

have been thinking that hundreds of people have been waiting for the stock to touch $500, and when it does,

, but if it does, let those who buy our stocks make it. As you said, it will bring us as mu

mped to $520, and when the returns were made, they found to their cr

them. "At $4 per day, this is n

three hundred acres at forty dollars per a

hospitals and bought exchange on New York and London

at he was entitled to only forty-six and two-thirds per cent

a gentleman," said Sedgwick. "We share alike on this business, remember t

e a little stake, and were going home; the good-byes we