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No money was drawn out of the bank by Cowperwood & Co. after that to create an overdraft. The bank's account with Cowperwood was squared. Nevertheless, Mr. Cowperwood might have drawn heavily, and nothing would have been thought of it. Mr. Davison did not know that Mr. Cowperwood was going to fail did not suppose that he could, so quickly.
She then said, without any preface: "It's about Charles and Uncle John's offer.... Mother's been talking to me. She says she can't afford to pay for him after this term. She says she'll have to ask for an overdraft as it is." "That's simply not true," said Ralph. "No. I thought not. But she won't believe me when I say it."
But, alas for the cause of human perfection! Now was the day of vengeance for his foes, and they duly essayed to take it. But the imperturbable Doctor was not troubled with too thin a skin, especially in a matter which was totally devoid of personal pecuniary advantage. The overdraft was, as he expected, readily made up by the public.
"Five hundred thousand, and even then I'll have to overdraw my accounts with three banks." "I wish my credit was as good as yours, Carey. Your banks will stand for the overdraft, of course. You'll have to arrange it some other way if they will not." "I can't give you a cent over half a million to-day, no matter what you do" pleaded Carey piteously, and Bob realized that he was speaking the truth.
Some sudden strain and the tension has been great for years some abrupt overdraft upon her mental resource, perhaps; God knows how it came from sorrow, from some unkindness too long endured "
Then there were letters to write, business calculations, a further overdraft to be applied for to the Bank, pending the cattle sales.... Would there be saleable cattle enough to meet demands and expenses of sinking fresh artesian bores now that the fire had destroyed all the best grass on the run? McKeith found no consolation in the prospect of his wife's riches.
"Dic asked him to loan me enough money to pay my overdraft said he would go on the note but he refused point blank; said the twenty-three hundred dollars he loaned father and Uncle Jim Fisher was all the money he had. The miserly old curmudgeon!" Mrs. Bays went weeping to Tom's side. "Poor Tom, my dear, dear son," she whimpered, trying to embrace him.
But the instalments had not been paid, and the cousin had most unexpectedly died of apoplexy during September, after three days' illness. His heir would have nothing to say to the guarantee, and the bank was pressing for repayment, in terms made all the harsher by the existence of an overdraft, which the local manager knew in his financial conscience ought not to have been allowed.
"Mr. Brewster states he has no authority to cash this check unless we cover our overdraft. He would like to talk to you." "Let him." Again the receiver spoke, while Clark's face grew suddenly very grim. "I think you'd better come up and see me," he said shortly. Then he listened. "Very well," he snapped. His features were like a mask.
"I'm hard hit myself, and I could point you out men here who were worth tens of thousands a month ago, and couldn't muster a hard hundred cash at this moment if their lives depended on it worse, too, men whose overdraft is nearly as big as their capital was the same time back." "I suppose so.
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