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Mr. Gordon was not the man to let the grass grow under his feet where the making of money was concerned, especially at a moment when a matter of £500 was something like financial stability to him, and accordingly he got to work at once. If he could handle that money within the next week or so, he could see his way to multiplying it tenfold at an early date. As yet, he was operating in an underground fashion, much as a mole works; but when the hour came, he fully intended to blossom out as a bold and audacious speculator on lines that seemed to him to be sound.
Ever since he had been in business, he had been picking up information.