It has become necessary that there should be one person in whose charge I can repose the knowledge of certain things.

New York does not hold such a person.

That is why I have sent for you." He paused so long that she ignored his injunction of silence.
"You know very well, uncle," she said, "that I am not clever, and that I understand nothing whatever about business, or anything to do with it, but I can at least promise that I will be faithful.

That seems a very poor reward for all that you have done for me." "Yes!" he answered, "I believe that you mean that.

Now I must tell you this, that these four men who have dined with me here to-night, with myself, are under a solemn covenant to conduct all our operations upon the market and in finance, whether in this country or in Europe, absolutely in unison.