"
"Goin' to build a dam, eh? Big dam?"
"Yes."
"Um!... Stock company?"
"Yes. We'll be solid. Capitalized for a quarter of a million and bonded
for a quarter of a million. Gives us half a million capital to start
business."
"Stock all sold?"
"Every share."
"Who to?"
"Mostly in small blocks in Boston."
"Um!... Bonds sold?"
"Yes."
"Who bought 'em?"
"They're underwritten by the Commonwealth Security Trust Company."
"Want to know!... Got authority? Vested with authority to put it in
writin'?"
"The contract, you mean?"
"Calculate to mean that."
"Yes."
"Lawyer acrost the street," said Scattergood.
"You can swing it?"
"Calculate to."
"You have the capital to make good?"
"Know I have, don't you? Wouldn't have come to me if you hadn't?"
"You'll have to borrow heavily."
"My lookout, hain't it? Don't need to worry you?"
"Not in the least."
"Lawyer's still acrost the street."
So Scattergood and Mr. Blossom went across the street and up the narrow
stairs to Lawyer Norton's office, where a contract was drafted and
signed, obligating Scattergood to deliver to the Higgins's Bridge Pulp
Company twenty-five thousand cords of pulp, on or before May 1st,
payment to be made on delivery.
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