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THE LAND OF MANY NAMES
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to hope that you also have come to take shares in my organisations?

First Sandwichman:

The magnificent Dollarson organisations.

Second Sandwichman:

The greatest prosperity and gain!

Vandergold:

Not a bit of it.

Dollarson:

Then perhaps I may assume that you have made speculations of your own? Although I did not hear that you were concerned in anything. And yet I am surprised, where so splendid an object——

Vandergold:

No.

First and Second Sandwichmen:

Listen! Dollarson has surpassed Vandergold.

Dollarson:

Ah, my friend, a strong man does not allow events to take him by surprise.

Vandergold:

You haven’t let the events take you by surprise?

Dollarson:

That I haven’t. Just look at all I am doing.