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:8 Strictly Business
"Don't worry," says Silver. "I've got this Jayville-
near-Tarrytown correctly estimated as sure as North River
is the Iludson and East River ain't a river. Why, there are
people living in four blocks of Broadway who never saw
any lind of a building except a skyscraper in their lives!
A good, live hustling Western man ought to get conspicu-
ous enough here inside of three months to incur either
Jerome's clemency or Lawson's displeasure. "
"Hyperbole aside," says I, "do you know of any imme-
diate system of buncoing the community out of a dollar
or two except by applying to the Salvation Army or hav-
ing a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps ?"
"Dozens of 'em," says Silver. "How much capital
have you got, Billy ?"
"A thousand," I told him.
"I've got $1,00,'" says he. "We'll pool and do a big
piece of business. There's so many ways we can make
a million that I don't know how to begin."
The next morning Silver meets me at the hotel and he is
all sonorous and stirred with a kind of silent joy.
" We're to meet J. P. Morgan this afternoon," says he.
" A man I know in the hotel wants to introduce us. He's
a friend of his. He says he likes to meet people from
the W1est."
"That sounds nice and plausible," says I. "I'd like
to know IMr. uMoran."
"It won't hurt us a bit, "says Silver, "to get acquainted
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