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Updated: July 19, 2025
"How so?" inquires Hiram Strosser, who enters the room just in time to hear the cry. Mr. Barton explains, the failure of Perleg, Jackson & Co. of London news brought on last steamer creditors pressing him. "'What amount would tide you over this crisis? asks Hiram Strosser, respectfully. "'Seventy-five thousand dollars!
Barton graciously accommodated Hiram Strosser, after vainly seeking to induce "Mr. Hawley, a wealthy merchant of Milk Street," to share half the risk. At this point a row of stars on the page indicated a lapse of ten years. Mr. Barton, "pale and agitated," examines with deepening despair, "page after page of his ponderous ledger." At last he exclaims, "I am ruined, utterly ruined!"
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