"I want to propose to you to interest yourself in the affairs of the
Northern Mississippi Railroad," said the other.
"The Northern Mississippi?" said Hegan, knitting his brows. "I have
never heard of it."
"I don't imagine that many people have," the other answered, and
went on to tell the story of the line.
"I have five hundred shares of the stock myself," he said, "but it
has been in my family for a long time, and I am perfectly satisfied
to let it stay there. I am not making this proposition on my own
account, but for a client who has a block of five thousand shares. I
have here the annual reports of the road for several years, and some
other information about its condition. My idea was that you might
care to take the road, and make the proposed extension to the works
of the Mississippi Steel Company."
"Mississippi Steel!" exclaimed Hegan. He had evidently heard of
that.
"How long ago did you say it was that this plan was looked into?" he
asked. And Montague told him the story of the survey, and what he
himself had heard about it.
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