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Havoc

CHAPTER XIX
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If you decline to do this, I must remove my account, in which case I shall, of course, take the packet away with me.

To be plain with you, Mr.Fenwick," he wound up, "I do not intend to make use of those notes, I never intended to do so.

I simply deposited them as security until the turn in price of 'Unions' came.
"It is a very nice point, Mr.Laverick," the bank manager remarked.
"I should consider that you had already made use of them." "Every one to his own conscience," Laverick answered calmly.
"You place me in a very embarrassing position, Mr.Laverick." "I cannot admit that at all," Laverick replied.

"There is only one inquiry which you could have had which could justify you in insisting upon what you have suggested.

It emanated, I presume, from Scotland Yard ?" "If it had," Mr.Fenwick answered, "no considerations of etiquette would have intervened at all.


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