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 to hope that you also have come to take shares in my organisations?



The magnificent Dollarson organisations.



The greatest prosperity and gain!



Not a bit of it.



Then perhaps I may assume that you have made speculations of your own? Although I did not hear that you were concerned in anything. And yet I am surprised, where so splendid an object



No.



Listen! Dollarson has surpassed Vandergold.



Ah, my friend, a strong man does not allow events to take him by surprise.



You haven’t let the events take you by surprise?



That I haven’t. Just look at all I am doing.