[The Profiteers by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Profiteers CHAPTER VII 8/10
Your husband will suffer with the rest." "That would not affect my attitude in the least," she assured him.
"As I think you must have gathered, there is no manner of sympathy between my husband and myself." "I am glad to hear you say so," he declared bluntly.
"If there had been, I should have felt it my duty to advise you to use all your influence to get him to resign from the Board." "As bad as that ?" "As bad as that," he answered. "You can't tell me anything about your scheme yet ?" "Not yet." "How is it," she asked, "that they have been allowed to operate in wheat to this enormous extent ?" "Well, for one thing," he told her, "the company has been planned and worked out with simply diabolical cleverness.
They are inside the law all the time, and they manage to keep there.
Their agents are so camouflaged that you can't tell for whom they are buying.
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