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He's got the highfaluting blood all right, but he is shy of the skads, so he protects his dignity and pride of race by bumming his way over the world, like an English milord with a ruined castle and an overdraft at the bank. He learned to talk United States in New York, and got to be a Boy Scout in Philadelphia." "Details of pedigree and biography later," said Ned. "Did he have an airship?"
I don't want to be walking along Broadway and come on you suddenly as a street-cleaner. I don't want to send for an express-man and find you popping up. My idea would be to go to my bank to arrange an overdraft and be told the president could give me two minutes and crawl in humbly and find you prezzing away to beat the band in a big chair.
You will then automatically restore to me the packet which you hold on my behalf, and the possession of which seems to embarrass you." "If you do not mind," the banker answered, "I should be glad if you would take it with you. It means, I think, a matter of six or seven thousand pounds added to your overdraft, but as a temporary thing we will pass that."
"If the shoe fits, put it on," I observed. "But there are certain things I want to explain," he tried to argue, with the look of a man confronted by an overdraft on his patience. "Somebody has said that a friend," I reminded him, "is a person to whom one need never explain. And any necessity for explanation, you see, removes us even from the realm of friendship."
I could quite understand that you needed security to go on making the necessary payments on my behalf. To-day, things are entirely different. I am twenty thousand pounds better off, and if necessary I could realize sufficient to pay off the whole of my overdraft within half-an-hour. That I do not do so is simply a matter of policy and prices." "I quite understand that, my dear Mr.
YOU were my Ideal, in those days, Joan before you went and got married. I've been an unlucky devil all round. Well there! I had to try and arrange things for an overdraft with the Bank in Leichardt's Town, but I went down chiefly to consult lawyers about the divorce question, so that it should be done with as little publicity and unpleasantness as possible.
The secretary looked up amazed, and did not seem to understand. "Well! The Prince has had an overdraft; you will give me a statement; that's all! I wish to see how we two stand." The two men, astonished to hear Madame Desvarennes speak of her son-in-law as she would of a customer, exchanged looks. "You have lent my son-in-law money, Cayrol?"
But don't pretend that you have a thousand dollars in bank when you hold in your hands the statement of your overdraft. Face your account with Nature like a man. For Nature is a generous, though remorseless, financier, delivering you your just due and exacting the uttermost of your debt. Also Nature renders you a daily accounting.
Carey wrote the checks, called in a clerk and instructed him to take them to the various banks and arrange for the overdraft and certification a comparatively easy task, since Carey was a heavy stockholder in all three banks. Within half an hour, while Bob and Carey sat glaring at each other, the checks were returned, and Carey handed them to Bob, who examined them and found them correct.
Tom had "overdrawn" his account in Williams's office; and, with the penitentiary staring him in the face, was clamoring for money to make good the overdraft. At home he used the words "overdraft" and "overdrawn" in confessing the situation. Williams, when speaking to Tom of the shortage, had used the words "embezzlement" and "thief."
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