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And the object of that regulation was officially stated to be 'to make them keep their own reserve, and not to be dependent on the Bank of England. As might be supposed, this rule was exceedingly unpopular with the brokers, and the greatest of them, Overend, Gurney and Co., resolved on a strange policy in the hope of abolishing it.
"Ten thousand dollars," said the chairman, "payable quarterly in advance." A chorus of approval went round the table. "Good," "Excellent," "A first-class man," muttered the trustees, "just what we want." "I am sure, gentlemen," said Mr. Dick Overend, voicing the sentiments of everybody, "we do not want a cheap man.
Dick, the senior brother, had said that he had never seen anything like it, and Mr. George, the junior, had declared that a man who could write that was capable of anything. On the whole it was evident that the relations between the Overend family and the presbyterian religion were too intimate to allow Mrs.
But there is no security at all that these will be regularly continued in each generation. The case of Overend, Gurney and Co., the model instance of all evil in business, is a most alarming example of this evil. But in a very few years the rule in it passed to a generation whose folly surpassed the usual limit of imaginable incapacity.
"I'm simply dying to meet your brother," she said to Mrs. Tom Overend, otherwise Philippa; "he's such a complete contrast with father." She knew no higher form of praise: "Father's sermons are always so frightfully full of religion." And Philippa promised that meet him she should.
It was beyond us, though we had the consolation of knowing that with such a man as Dumfarthing the money made no difference." "And he has accepted the call?" "Yes. He accepted it today. He sent word to Mr. Dick Overend our chairman, that he would remain in his manse, looking for light, until two-thirty, after which, if we had not communicated with him by that hour, he would cease to look for it."
"Nine thousand nine hundred," said the chairman. "And Dr. McSkwirt?" "Fourteen hundred dollars." "Well, that settles it!" exclaimed everybody with a burst of enlightenment. And so it was settled. In fact, nothing could have been plainer. "I suppose," said Mr. George Overend as they were about to rise, "that we are quite justified in taking it for granted that Dr.
"I heard that two of them were arrested," said Mr. Dick Overend. "Only by an error," said the president. "There was a mistake. It was not known that they were students. The two who were arrested were smashing the windows of the car, after it was upset, with their hockey sticks. A squad of police mistook them for rioters.
Newberry, leaning back in a leather armchair at the Mausoleum Club and lighting a second cigar, "it's rotten, that's all." "Absolutely rotten," assented Mr. Dick Overend, ringing the bell for a second whiskey and soda. "Corrupt," said Mr. Newberry, between two puffs of his cigar. "Full of graft," said Mr. Overend, flicking his ashes into the grate. "Crooked aldermen," said Mr. Newberry.
Of course nothing whatever was said during the lunch about the churches or their finances or anything concerning them. Such discussion would have been a gross business impropriety. A few days later the two brothers Overend dined with Mr. Furlong senior, the dinner being charged directly to the contingencies account of St. Asaph's. After which Mr. Skinyer and his partner, Mr.
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