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The Financier

CHAPTER IX
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Cowperwood started in the note brokerage business with a small office at No.

64 South Third Street, where he very soon had the pleasure of discovering that his former excellent business connections remembered him.

He would go to one house, where he suspected ready money might be desirable, and offer to negotiate their notes or any paper they might issue bearing six per cent.

interest for a commission and then he would sell the paper for a small commission to some one who would welcome a secure investment.

Sometimes his father, sometimes other people, helped him with suggestions as to when and how.


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