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 Application will be made to the Committee of the Stock Exchange, London, for permission to deal in the shares of this Company after allotment, and for a Quotation. The Subscription List will close on or before Friday the 31st day of October, 1913.

and from there went on, in silence, to pore over the names of the directors, bankers, solicitors, brokers, his wonder of speculation increasing with every paragraph he read.

The inspector thrust a finger forward and placed it on a line of the prospectus.

"See that?" he exclaimed. "One of the directors is Philip Mortover, Esquire, of Mortover Grange near Netherwell, Derbyshire, who will join the board after allotment. And see there again the company's formed to acquire the freehold property of this Philip Mortover and to develop the coal underneath it, and so