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True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the Broker's Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust of His Clients, and a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.

A week after he arrived, he rented a one bedroom apartment on Liholiho Street, telling the realtor that he had a degree from the university which was true and that he was retired, which didn't sound right. "Semi-retired," he amended. It was a bare bones apartment on the third floor with a lanai that faced mauka, toward the mountain.

In an address at the Boosters' Club he had admitted, "It is at once the duty and the privilege of the realtor to know everything about his own city and its environs.

"Oh, it's the training in constructive imagination that a fellow gets in modern business life." The other six pages were rather like the first. For a week he went about looking important. Every morning, as he dressed, he thought aloud: "Jever stop to consider, Myra, that before a town can have buildings or prosperity or any of those things, some realtor has got to sell 'em the land?

Where a surgeon is a specialist on every vein and mysterious cell of the human body, and the engineer upon electricity in all its phases, or every bolt of some great bridge majestically arching o'er a mighty flood, the realtor must know his city, inch by inch, and all its faults and virtues."

No sense supposing when there's a lot of real facts to take into considera " "Look here, Dad. Suppose I mean, just just suppose you were in your office and some rival real-estate man " "Realtor!" " some realtor that you hated came in " "I don't hate any realtor." "But suppose you DID!" "I don't intend to suppose anything of the kind!

The venerable Minnemagantic realtor, Major Carlton Tuke, read a paper in which he denounced cooperative stores. William A. Larkin of Eureka gave a comforting prognosis of "The Prospects for Increased Construction," and reminded them that plate-glass prices were two points lower. The convention was on. The delegates were entertained, incessantly and firmly.

There's plenty of fellows in my profession that stoop and hate their competitors, but if you were a little older and understood business, instead of always going to the movies and running around with a lot of fool girls with their dresses up to their knees and powdered and painted and rouged and God knows what all as if they were chorus-girls, then you'd know and you'd suppose that if there's any one thing that I stand for in the real-estate circles of Zenith, it is that we ought to always speak of each other only in the friendliest terms and institute a spirit of brotherhood and cooperation, and so I certainly can't suppose and I can't imagine my hating any realtor, not even that dirty, fourflushing society sneak, Cecil Rountree!"

Don't care any longer.... Gosh, you've had to stand a lot of whining from me, first and last, Georgie!" "Rats, now, Paul, you've never really what you could call whined. Sometimes I'm always blowing to Myra and the kids about what a whale of a realtor I am, and yet sometimes I get a sneaking idea I'm not such a Pierpont Morgan as I let on to be.

Babbitt, I didn't intend to pull anything crooked. I just wanted the firm to have all the commis " "Wait now, Stan. This may all be true, but I've been having a lot of complaints about you. Now I don't s'pose you ever mean to do wrong, and I think if you just get a good lesson that'll jog you up a little, you'll turn out a first-class realtor yet. But I don't see how I can keep you on."