"
"He might just as well own it," was the reply. "If I were going into
Wall Street to make money, I'd rather have the control of fifty
millions than the absolute ownership of ten."
"By the way," Oliver remarked after a moment, "the Prentices have
asked Alice up to Newport. Alice seems to be quite taken with that
young chap, Curtiss."
"He comes around a good deal," said Montague. "He seems a very
decent fellow."
"No doubt," said the other. "But he hasn't enough money to take care
of a girl like Alice."
"Well," he replied, "that's a question for Alice to consider."
CHAPTER X
ONE day, a month or so later, Montague, to his great surprise,
received a letter from Stanley Ryder.
"Could you make it convenient to call at my office sometime this
afternoon?" it read. "I wish to talk over with you a business
proposition which I believe you will find of great advantage to
yourself."
"I suppose he wants to buy my Northern Mississippi stock," he said
to himself, as he called up Ryder on the 'phone, and made an
appointment.
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