And who is to
kick here? The public who hold the shares are not likely
to complain because they've gone up fifteen hundred
or two thousand per cent. And who else has any interest
in what the Company, as a Company, does?"
"Ah, that is a question which has occurred to me," said Lord
Chaldon, "and I shall be glad if it is already answered.
The only people likely to 'kick,' as you put it so simply,
would be, I take it, Directors and other officers of the
Company who find themselves holding a class of shares
which does not participate in the present rise. I speak
with some confidence--because I was in that position myself
until a few minutes ago--and I don't mind confessing
that I had brought myself to contemplate the contingency
of ultimately being compelled to--to 'kick' a little.
Of course, so far as I am concerned, events have put me
in a diametrically different frame of mind. If I came
prepared--I won't say to curse, but to--to criticize--I
certainly remain to bless. But you see my point.
I of course do not know what you have done as regards
the other members of the Board."
"I don't care about them," said Thorpe, carelessly. "You are
the one that I wished to bring in on the ground-floor.
The others don't matter. Of course, I shall do something
for them; they shan't be allowed to make trouble--even
supposing that it would be in their power to make trouble,
which isn't the case.
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