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"Rising price of cotton, you mean," Harry corrected

"Oh, temporarily," John Taylor admitted

"Precisely, and thus postpone the decision"

"No, Mr Cresswell I'round floor--now--not next year, or year after"

"Mr Taylor, have you anyis this way: if you can prove to us that conditions are as you say, we're in for it"

"Good! Meet me in New York, say--let's see, this is March tenth--well, May third"

Young Cressas thinking rapidly This man without doubt represented ht, or did the whole move conceal a trick?

His eyes strayed to the porch where his pretty sister sat languidly, and then toward the school where the other sister lived John Taylor looked out on the porch, too They glanced quickly at each other, and each wondered if the other had shared his thought Harry Cresswell did not voice his mind for he was not wholly disposed to welco in tones almost confidential: "You could recommend this deal, then, could you--to your own friends?"

"Toat Harry Cressith sudden interest But Mr Cressas staring at the end of his cigar