“Well, we’ll buy it,” cried Jadwin, through his set teeth. “I’ll show those brutes. Look here, is it money we want? You cable to Paris and offer two million, at⁠—oh, at eight cents below the market; and to Liverpool, and let ’em have twopence off on the same amount. They’ll snap it up as quick as look at it. That will bring in one lot of money, and as for the rest, I guess I’ve got some real estate in this town that’s pretty good security.”

“What⁠—you going to mortgage part of that?”