![]() “Oh, can I? I really need to talk to a friend,” Lloyd said, with water in his eyes. When we leave the dinner party, you must tell me what happened.” It is impossible to sell these shares here in London. And, I still think it’s difficult to sell shares of a California gold mine here in London.” I didn’t want to leave my job in San Francisco. ![]() I wanted you to help me sell the Gould and Curry gold mine shares. Do you remember, Henry, I asked you to come to London with me. That night we worked for six long hours on the Gould and Curry Mining Company papers. We went there at two o’clock in the morning. “No, no, it was the What Cheer Restaurant.” “Just three months ago, we went to the Miner’s Restaurant – ” Now you’re a millionaire, a celebrity here in London. And, at night, you helped me arrange the papers for the Gould and Curry Mining Company. I never thought you were the same Henry Adams from San Francisco! Six months ago, you were working in the offices of Blake Hopkins in San Francisco. “Yes, I’m the strange millionaire with the million-dollar note in his pocket!” When Mr Hastings saw me, he said, “I think I know you.” I fell in love with her in two minutes, and she with me!Īfter a while, the house servant presented another guest, Mr Lloyd Hastings. ![]() There was also a beautiful, twenty-two-year old English girl, named Portia Langham. The Duke and Duchess of Shoreditch, and their daughter, Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor de Bohun, the Earl and Countess of Newgate, Viscount Cheapside, Lord and Lady Blatherskite, the Ambassador and his wife and daughter, and some other people. There were fourteen people at the dinner party.
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