"Take care that some of the brass sticks when you handle it, no doubt ?" "Commission and percentage, of course," responded Fullaway.
"Ah, well, you've an advantage over chaps like me," said Allerdyke.

"Now, you shall take my case.

We've made a pile of money in our firm, grandfather, father, and myself; but, Lord, man, you wouldn't believe what our expenses have been! Building mills, fitting machinery--and then, wages! Why, I pay wages to six hundred workpeople every Friday afternoon! Our wages bill runs to well over fourteen hundred pound a week.

You've naught of that sort, of course--no great staff to keep up ?" "No," answered Fullaway.

He nodded his head towards the door of a room through which they had just passed on their way into the agent's private apartments.