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The Profiteers

CHAPTER I
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She seemed to bring with her an agreeable atmosphere of wholesome things.
"You shall advise your clients not to touch what ?" she enquired.

"Are there any tips going ?" Kendrick shook his head.
"You stick to the tips your clients slip into your hand, my dear young lady," he advised, "and don't dabble in what you don't understand.

The Stock Exchange is a den of thieves, and Maurice here and I are two of the worst examples." Miss Sarah Baldwin made a little grimace.
"My clients are such a mean lot," she complained.

"Now that they have got over the novelty of being driven in a taxicab by a woman, they are positively stingy.

Even Jimmy here only gave me a sovereign for picking him up at St.James' Street, waiting twenty minutes at his tailor's, and bringing him on here.


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