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Rh ning, and even if they were not, there is no method by which Lord Stranleigh could get hold of their names. The lists will all be in my possession."

"Don't you be too sure, Mr. Isaacstein, that Stranleigh won't do something. He'll be back in London by the first train from Cadiz, and if you are a wise man you will crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after you. It won't be healthy for you to remain in London once Stranleigh gets back."

Isador laughed heartily.

"I'm not afraid of Lord Stranleigh," he said. "When he returns he will find everything has been done strictly according to law, and aside from that I shall guarantee to those who have lost money through selling their stocks that the first dividends of the new company will be used to recoup them, for, as rubber is going up in price steadily, we are certain to pay a hundred per cent. the first year. Indeed, I shall satisfy Lord Stranleigh himself that this will be done. In one of his letters that you have given me there is a sentence which might be construed to mean that he intends to join our company. He speaks highly of the rubber prospects in the automobile trade alone. My secretary will accept the blame for making the mistake upon the prospectus, and I can show that I made amends the very moment I learned that Stranleigh's name had been used, and I