Simon Stone Monologue from Comrades: A Drama in Three Acts

From Comrades: A Drama in Three Acts by George M. (George Melville) Baker

male · dramatic · 1:02 min

Calker Goodwin, the broker, came and wanted to borrow it: a genial fellow after he found I had the money, though he did cut me a week before; but then legacies, like death, level all distinctions. (NANCY: And you let him have it?) No; declined with thanks, as the editors tell the poets. Then he told me of a good investment. “The Iris.” (NANCY: Irish what?) “The Iris,”——a silver mine,——somewhere or nowhere, it don’t matter which. The stock was way down: eighty cents. Cal said it would rise in three days: bade me go in and win. So in I went, invested my thousand in Iris, and in three days it was way up to ten dollars, in three weeks to forty; then I got scared.

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