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Updated: May 19, 2025
* It may not be amiss to remind the incredulous reader that a famous firm in the City accepted precisely the same security as that here accepted by Bulpit Brothers, with the same sublime indifference to troubling themselves by making any inquiry about it. Muswell Hill. The next day Turlington drove to the suburbs, on the chance of finding the Graybrookes at home again.
With his position in the City, he had only to go to the famous money-lending and discounting house of Bulpit Brothers reported to "turn over" millions in their business every year and to supply himself at once with the necessary funds. Forty thousand pounds was a trifling transaction to Bulpit Brothers. Having got the money, how, in the present state of his trade, was the loan to be paid back?
To his view, the future was limited to the date at which Bulpit Brothers had a right to claim the repayment of their loan. The Will was a matter of no earthly importance to him, by comparison with the infinitely superior interest of the Marriage.
Either he must repay the borrowed forty thousand pounds on the day when repayment was due, or he must ask Bulpit Brothers to grant him an extension of time, and so inevitably provoke an examination into the fraudulent security deposited with the firm, which could end in but one way.
He put on his hat and took his false security to the money-lenders, without feeling at all lowered in his own estimation as an honest man. Bulpit Brothers, long desirous of having such a name as his on their books, received him with open arms. The money was lent, for three months, with a stroke of the pen.
The Bills of Lading had been already used by the firm, in the ordinary course of trade, to obtain possession of the goods. The duplicates in the hands of Bulpit Brothers were literally waste paper. There was his commercial position! Was it possible that money-loving Sir Joseph had any modification to propose in the matter of his daughter's dowry? The bare dread that it might be so struck him cold.
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