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He had grown grey in the service of the company. Mr. Scorrier would bear him out when he said he had a position to maintain his name in the City was a high one; and, by George! he was going to keep it a high one; he would allow nobody to drag it in the dust that ought clearly to be understood. "If there were no London office," murmured Pippin, "the shareholders would get the same dividends."
Scorrier would not have known the place again; there was a glitter over everything, as if some one had touched it with a wand.
"Ah, Pippin! We asked you to come on his account. Pippin is giving us a lot of trouble. We have not had a single line from him for just two years!" He spoke with such a sense of personal grievance that Scorrier felt quite sorry for him. "Not a single line," said Hemmings, "since that explosion you were there at the time, I remember! It makes it very awkward; I call it personal to me."
He put before Scorrier a telegram: "At all costs keep working fatal to stop manage this somehow. Breathing quickly, he added: "As if I didn't know! 'Manage this somehow' a little hard!" "What's to be done?" asked Scorrier. "You see I am commanded!" Pippin answered bitterly. "And they're quite right; we must keep working our contracts! Now I'm down not a soul will spare me!"
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