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Updated: May 28, 2025
If there had been any one to come forward the bank-manager's evidence would surely have proved an incentive to speed for there was a sum of ten thousand pounds awaiting John Braden's next-of-kin. In Bryce's opinion the chance of putting in a claim to ten thousand pounds is not left waiting forty-eight hours whoever saw such a chance would make instant use of telegraph or telephone.
I should have thought that one might have expected one's partner at a club like this to exercise elementary But Mr Bickersdyke had gone. He had melted silently away like the driven snow. Psmith took his place at the table. 'A somewhat nervous excitable man, Mr Bickersdyke, I should say, he observed. 'A somewhat dashed, blanked idiot, emended the bank-manager's late partner.
The bank-manager's opening remarks were received without any demonstration. Mr Bickersdyke spoke well. He had a penetrating, if harsh, voice, and he said what he had to say forcibly. Little by little the audience came under his spell.
The talk at dinner turned first on the ailments of an old woman who was accustomed to clean the church, but was now suspected of being past her work; then, by an abrupt transition, on the new hat which the bank-manager's wife had brought home from Dublin; and, finally, the connection of thought being again far from obvious, on the hymns which had been sung that morning.
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