"That's more than I know," said Melmotte. "Whatever shares you have, were issued at San Francisco, and not here."
"I have taken nothing that I haven't paid for," said Montague. "Nor have I yet had allotted to me anything like the number of shares which my capital would represent. But I did not intend to speak of my own concerns."
"It looks very like it," said Cohenlupe.
"So far from it that I am prepared to risk the not improbable loss of everything I have in the world. I am determined to know what is being done with the shares, or to make it public to the world at large that I, one of the directors of the Company, do not in truth know anything about it. I cannot, I suppose, absolve myself from further responsibility; but I can at any rate do what is right from this time forward,--and that course I intend to take."

"That's more than I know," said Melmotte. "Whatever shares you have, were issued at San Francisco, and not here."
"I have taken nothing that I haven't paid for," said Montague. "Nor have I yet had allotted to me anything like the number of shares which my capital would represent. But I did not intend to speak of my own concerns."
"It looks very like it," said Cohenlupe.
"So far from it that I am prepared to risk the loss of everything I have in the world. I am determined to know what is being done with the shares, or to tell the world at large that I, one of the directors, do not in truth know anything about it. I intend to do what is right."
