? ? ? ? "I had forgotten all about Mawson's in my joy. 'I'll write and resign,' said I.
? ? ? ? " 'Precisely what I don't want you to do. I had a row over you with Mawson's manager. I had gone up to ask him about you, and he was very offensive; accused me of coaxing you away from the service of the firm, and that sort of thing. At last I fairly lost my temper. "If you want good men you should pay them a good price," said I.
? ? ? ? " ' "He would rather have our small price than your big one," said he.
? ? ? ? " ' "I'll lay you a fiver," said I, "that when he has my offer you'll never so much as hear from him again."
? ? ? ? " ' "Done!" said he. "We picked him out of the gutter, and he won't leave us so easily." Those were his very words.'
? ? ? ? " 'The impudent scoundrel!' I cried. 'I've never so much as seen him in my life. Why should I consider him in any way? I shall certainly not write if you would rather I didn't.'
? ? ? ? " 'Good! That's a promise,' said he, rising from his chair. 'Well, I'm delighted to have got so good a man for my brother. Here's your advance of a hundred pounds, and here is the letter.
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