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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: have to take shares. They would not have to pay for them. And then they
would get some big man in London to take shares. He need not pay for them;
they would give them to him; and then the company would be floated. No one
would have to pay anything; it was just the name--"The Peter Halket Gold
Mining Company, Limited." It would float in London; and people there who
didn't know the country would buy the shares; THEY would have to give ready
money for them, of course; perhaps fifteen pounds a share when they were
up!--Peter Halket's eyes blinked as he looked into the fire.--And then,
when the market was up, he, Peter Halket, would sell out all his shares.
If he gave himself only six thousand and sold them each for ten pounds,
then he, Peter Halket, would have sixty thousand pounds! And then he would
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