[The Profiteers by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Profiteers CHAPTER XIV 7/13
I tell you that you cannot carry this thing through. Better disgorge your profits and sell while you have a chance." Dredlinton tapped a cigarette against his desk and lit it. "My dear fellow," he said, "you really ought to go into Parliament.
Such eloquence is rather wasted in a City office." "I rather imagined that it would be," Wingate assented.
"At the same time, I warned you that if I came I should speak my mind." Phipps did his best for peace.
This was his enemy with whom he was now face to face, but the final issue was not yet.
He spoke suavely and persuasively. "Come, come," he said, "Wingate, you have changed since you and I fought our battles in New York and Chicago.
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