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Updated: May 3, 2025

It is true, the amount was only ninety two thousand, and, as a trust company would handle that sum of money for four hundred and odd dollars, he was bound to do the same; and this would certainly not pay him for his time. "Sometimes, however," said Peter to himself, "these, trusteeships have very handsome picking's, aside from the half per cent."

Paul Leicester Ford - The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him