You says, 'J.R., how'd you come
to take the cash of parties that trusted you?' I answers, 'It comes
from being romantic.' You ain't romantic, Jessamine? That's too bad.
You don't see it. You don't expand to my circumference. You don't
permeate my orbit. You don't get on to me. It was this way. I got up
and looked out on the world. I says: 'J. R., it's clear you haven't
enough cash for your ambitions. But you've got a opportunity. Throw
it in. Be bold. If your conscience squirms, let it squirm. If it
wriggles, let it wriggle. Take the risk. Expand to large ideas.' I
took it. Say, I made parties unwilling investors in me. Now, then,
there they are, as delegated in you. Here's me, Julius R., monarch by
purchase and election of the sovereign state of Lua. You asks, 'What
next?' I says: 'This. I'll pay. I'll settle the claims with
interest on investment' But I've got to have time. Pay with what?
Now there's the point. I've been investigating the produce of this
island, the pearl-fishing, the coral, the hardwood. The pearl-fishing
is good. As a business man, I tell you it can be done."
Jessamine shook his head. "I haven't any authority to settle the
case.
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