Sometimes--in the City." "In the City.

Where in the City?
Mansion House, or Lombard Street, or St.Paul's Churchyard, or the Old Bailey, or where ?" "I have recollections of meeting him outside the Stock Exchange." "Oh! Was he a member of that institution ?" "Not that I know of." "Were you ?" "Certainly not!" "What were the dealings that you had with him ?" "Financial dealings--small ones." "How long did your acquaintanceship with him last--what period did it extend over ?" "I should say about six months to nine months." "No more ?" "Certainly no more." "It was quite a slight acquaintanceship, then ?" "Oh, quite!" "And yet, after losing sight of this merely slight acquaintance for over twenty years, you, on meeting him, take great interest in him ?" "Well, I was willing to do him a good turn, I was interested in what he told me the other evening." "I see.

Now you will not object to my asking you a personal question or two.

You are a public man, and the facts about the lives of public men are more or less public property.

You are represented in this work of popular reference as coming to this country in 1902, from Argentina, where you made a considerable fortune.