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"Why, I don't know just what the exchange would be. What is the exchange on this, Penwell?" "Will you cash this draft for me?" asked Keith. "Certainly." "Well, will you do me a further favor? It might make very little difference if I were to make a deposit in Norman's bank; but if you were to make such a deposit there, it would probably reassure people, and the run might be stopped.
Creamer. "Mr. Penwell is the head of our foreign department," he added in gracious explanation to Keith. "Mr. Keith, gentlemen, is largely interested in some of those Southern mining properties that you have heard me speak of; and has just put through a very fine deal with an English syndicate."
"Fallen upon one of his oldest friends, who will take care of him, and well out of the way of the croquet traps. Where's my Lady? I thought you were with her." "She disappeared while I was talking to that good Miss Penwell! You must be pleased now, Alick, you see she is really going to see about going to Scotland."
He presented Keith in turn to each of his companions, who greeted him with that degree of mingled reserve and civility which is due to a man who has placed a paper capable of effecting such a marked change in the hands of the most self-contained banker in Bankers' Row. A tap at the door announced an answer to the bell, and the next moment a clerk came in. "Ask Mr. Penwell to come here," said Mr.
Some one had just come and said that there was a run on his bank. "Those attacks on him in the newspapers must have hurt him considerably," observed one of the visitors. "Yes, he has been a good deal hurt," said Mr. Creamer. "We are all right, Penwell?" He glanced at his subordinate. Mr. Penwell nodded with deep satisfaction. "So are we," said one of the visitors.
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