[The Blotting Book by E. F. Benson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Blotting Book CHAPTER III 13/23
I will proceed. "Now what has been my part in this affair? I have observed you lost money in speculations of which I disapproved, but you always knew best. I have advanced money to you before now to tide over embarrassments that would otherwise have been disastrous.
By the exercise of diplomacy--or lying--yesterday, I averted a very grave danger.
I point out to you also that there is nothing to implicate me in these--these fraudulent employments of a client's money.
So I ask, where I come in? What do I get by it ?" Mr.Taynton's hands were trembling as he fumbled at some papers on his desk. "You know quite well that we are to share all profits ?" he said. "Yes, but at present there have not been any.
I have been, to put it plainly, pulling you out of holes.
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