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Business began to pick up, not a great deal at first, but a little, and as May brought the first of the early-bird summer cottagers to South Harniss, the silent partner of Hamilton and Company awaited the coming of what should be the firm's busiest season with hope and some confidence. During all this time she had heard from Crawford at least once a week.
Feinholz cried. "Because them goods got burned up on our freight elevator this morning," Morris replied. "What!" Feinholz gasped. "That's what I said," Morris concluded; "and if you excuse me I got some business to attend to." Feinholz turned and almost staggered from the store, while Morris joined his partner and Sam Feder in the firm's office.
"You mustn't bother about these things now, Frank dear," said she. "I'll get my brother to look into it." "That won't be necessary," hastily said Frank. "I don't want any rival lawyer peeping into our firm's affairs." "My brother Wharton is the soul of honor," said Mrs. Gower, the elder, with dignity. "You are too young to take all the responsibility of settling the estate.
The firm's policy was paternalistic, and while in many ways it had a genuine kindness, it was not in general sympathy with Scientific Management, though the superintendent is a thorough and consistent supporter of the new system.
It was melancholy reading, and perhaps the last page was the most melancholy of all. On it the old man had drawn up in a condensed form an exact account of the present condition of the firm's finances. Here it is exactly word for word as he had written it down himself. "Come, it's not so very bad after all," the merchant muttered, after he had gone over these figures very slowly and carefully.
"We've rather bad news for you, Mr. Dodd," said Fowler. "Your firm's gone up." "Already?" I exclaimed. "Well, it was thought rather a wonder Pinkerton held on as long as he did," was the reply. "The wreck deal was too big for your credit; you were doing a big business, no doubt, but you were doing it on precious little capital, and when the strain came, you were bound to go.
Over this feature of the firm's activities I feel obliged, however, from a natural feeling of delicacy, to draw a veil. Our function usually consisted in offering to see to it that a certain proposed action, based on certain injudicious letters, should be discontinued upon the payment of a certain specified sum of money.
He had shot wild game in South Africa with Sir John Brodney, chief counsellor for the islanders, and, as luck would have it, was to lunch with him on the following day at the Savoy. His soul hungered for excitement, novelty. The next day, when Sir John suddenly proposed that he go out to Japat as the firm's representative, he leaped at the chance.
Although there were many trained engineers in West Australia, there was no one to equal him in these specialties of his. And very soon his firm's mines, which had so far had little benefit of executive ability coupled with technical knowledge and originality, began to pay and their stocks went up on the London market which was the criterion of success in the eyes of the men in the "city."
Harwood was one of half a dozen students, who ran errands to the courts, kept the accounts, and otherwise made themselves useful. Wright and Fitch was the principal law firm in the state in the period under scrutiny, as may readily be proved by an examination of the court dockets. The firm's practice was, however, limited.
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