23/26 Good God, this'll never do at all, at all!" Frank went back. "He'll pay ten per cent.," he said, quietly. He made out a check for the total fifteen thousand at once to the Girard National Bank to cover a shrinkage there. So it went. He was not disturbed by the cause of slavery, or the talk of secession, or the general progress or decline of the country, except in so far as it affected his immediate interests. |