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a bear of them?" she enquired sagely. "You would do yourself and every one else more good by not dealing in them at all," Wingate advised. "The whole thing is a terrible gamble." "When did you arrive?" Kendrick enquired. "Have you been in the City yet?" Wingate shook his head. "I have spent the last two days in the north of England," he replied. "I was rather interested in having a glance at conditions there. I only arrived in London last night." "But this morning?" Sarah asked him. "You don't mean to tell me that you had strength of mind enough to keep away from the City?" "I certainly do. I did not even telephone to my brokers. Kendrick here knows that, for he is one of the firm." "Then what did you do?" Sarah persisted, "I can't imagine you spending your first morning in idleness." "You might have called it idleness; I didn't," he answered, smiling. "I had my hair cut and my nails manicured; I was measured for four new suits of clothes, a certain number of shirts, and I bought some other indispensable trifles." "Dear me," Sarah murmured, "you aren't at all the sort of man I thought you were!" "Why not?" "You don't seem energetic. I should have thought, even if you weren't supposed to buy or sell, that you would have been all round the markets, enquiring about B. & I.'s this morning." "I read the papers instead," he replied. "One can learn a good deal from the papers." "You will find rather a partial Press where B. & I.'s are concerned," Kendrick observed. "I have already noticed it," was the brief reply. "Still, even the Press must live, I suppose." "Cynic!" Sarah murmured. "Might one ask, without being impertinent," Maurice White enquired, addressing Wingate for the first time, "what is your real opinion concerning the directors of the B. & I.?" Wingate answered him deliberately. "I am scarcely a fair person to ask," he said, "because Peter Phipps is a personal enemy of mine. However, since you have asked the question, I should say that Phipps is utterly unscrupulous and possesses every qualification of a blackguard. Rees, his nephew, is completely under his thumb, occupying just the position he might be supposed to hold. Skinflint Martin ought to have died in penal servitude years ago, and as for Dredlinton--" Wingate was quick to scent disaster. He broke off abruptly in his sentence just as a tall, pale, beautifully gowned woman who had detached herself from a group c
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