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Mr Fisker was fully satisfied with the progress he had ue to the whole transaction Mr Melreat a reality, such a fact in the coer possible for such a one as Montague to refuse to believe in the scheraph at his coh San Francisco and Salt Lake City had been suburbs of London He was chairman of the British branch of the Company, and had had shares allocated to him,--or, as he said, to the house,--to the extent of twoof doubt, and a consciousness that Melht by many to have been built upon the sands

Paul had now of course given his full authority to the work, er Carbury,--and had coht personally attend to the affairs of the great railway There was an office just behind the Exchange, with two or three clerks and a secretary, the latter position being held by Miles Grendall, Esq Paul, who had a conscience in the matter and was keenly alive to the fact that he was not only a director but was also one of the firue which was responsible for the whole affair, was grievously anxious to be really at work, and would attend most inopportunely at the Coered in London, did his best to put a stop to this folly, and on more than one occasion somewhat snubbed his partner 'My dear fellohat's the use of your flurrying yourself? In a thing of this kind, when it has once been set agoing, there is nothing else to do You ers off before you can make it move, and then fail But all that has been done for you If you go there on the Thursdays that's quite as much as you need do You don't suppose that such a man as Melmotte would put up with any real interference' Paul endeavoured to assert hiers he ement;--that his fortune, such as it was, had been embarked in the matter, and was as important to hiot the better of him and put hiarly thousands of dollars not worth talking of, and barely sufficient to enable a man to look at an enterprise And nohere are you? Look here, sir;--there's -up of such an affair as this, if it should smash up, than could be made by years of hard work out of such fortunes as yours and ular way of trade'