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The Financier

CHAPTER IV
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They put him on the books at first as assistant bookkeeper, vice Mr.Thomas Trixler, dismissed, and in two weeks George said: "Why don't we make Cowperwood head bookkeeper?
He knows more in a minute than that fellow Sampson will ever know." "All right, make the transfer, George, but don't fuss so.

He won't be a bookkeeper long, though.

I want to see if he can't handle some of these transfers for me after a bit." The books of Messrs.

Waterman & Co., though fairly complicated, were child's play to Frank.

He went through them with an ease and rapidity which surprised his erstwhile superior, Mr.Sampson.
"Why, that fellow," Sampson told another clerk on the first day he had seen Cowperwood work, "he's too brisk.


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