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They thanked him with swimming eyes and broken voices , and started to retire , when he called them back , and said : `` I bought that stock because I noticed that you were not just like some of the others down in the mine , and I knew if the money should be lost you would neither of you reproach me . But I called you back to tell you that while I do not think there is any hurry about selling your stocks , dealing in mining shares is a risky business , as a rule , especially when you have nothing but a guess to go on ; and I do not believe I would , if in your places , take that up for a business . '' Then some one else came in , and the miners retired . They determined not to sell just then , and both went back to work at 4 in the afternoon of that day . The young men continued their daily toil . After the stock reached $ 35 per share , it hung at that figure for a long time , but they felt no uneasiness . They saw the hurry of the work in opening the Consolidated Virginia and the C. & C. shafts ; they saw a new great quartz mill being erected , but they saw something else which pleased them much more , which was that the more the great ore body was sunk and drifted upon , the bigger it grew .