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It could scarce
be said to better my position, but the step quieted the
woman; and, on the other hand, I could not think I was
taking much risk, for the shares in question (they were
those of what I will call the Catamount Silver Mine)
had fallen some time before to the bed-rock quotation,
and now lay perfectly inert, or were only kicked (like
other waste-paper) about the kennel of the exchange by
bankrupt speculators.
A month or two after I perceived by the stock-list that
Catamount had taken a bound; before afternoon "thim
stock" were worth a quite considerable pot of money;
and I learned, upon inquiry, that a bonanza had been
found in a condemned lead, and the mine was now
expected to do wonders. Remarkable to philosophers how
bonanzas are found in condemned leads, and how the
stock is always at freezing-point immediately before!
By some stroke of chance the Speedys had held on to the
right thing; they had escaped the syndicate; yet a
little more, if I had not come to dun them, and Mrs.
Speedy would have been buying a silk dress.


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