I had never heard of the firm; not an extraordinary thing in my case when bankers were concerned.
Peter laughed: "Yes, BANKERS--all in capital letters--the imitation kind.

Breen came from some place out of town and made a lucky hit in his first year--mines or something--I forget what.

Oh, but you must know that it takes very little now-a-days to make a full-fledged banker.

All you have to do is to hoist in a safe--through the window, generally, with the crowd looking on; rail off half the office; scatter some big ledgers over two or three newly varnished desks; move in a dozen arm-chairs, get a ticker, a black-board and a boy with a piece of chalk; be pleasant to every fellow you meet with his own or somebody else's money in his pocket, and there you are.

But we won't talk of these things--it isn't kind, and, really, I hardly know Breen, and I'm quite sure he wouldn't know me if he saw me, and he's a very decent gentleman in many ways, I hear.