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294 "Well, I can control the shares of Miss Pavis, forty thousand; the Children's Hospital owns thirteen thousand. So we control a comfortable majority of the stock of the company. We will turn out the present directors and go on the board ourselves. You shall be managing director, Chelubai, and Bottiger shall act as assistant manager. At first, to set the company going, you'll have to stay at Quorley."

Both of them looked at Angel.

"I don't want to go and bury myself in a hole in Cumberland," growled Bottiger.

"What about the theosophical lectures?" said Chelubai. "You wouldn't let your theosophy interfere with your duty to Humanity. Besides, you won't have to leave London for any great length of time. A few months ought to set the company going all right," I said.

Both of them looked very glum.

"A summer in Cumberland would be delightful," said Angel.

"Would you come there, Miss Brand?" said Chelubai eagerly.

"Yes; we should probably come for a time, if it turned out a nice place, and there were any place we could stay at," I said quickly.

"I expect the fishing would be all right," said Bottiger, a little more cheerfully. "We'll all go together."