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The Firm of Girdlestone

CHAPTER XI
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We have very little.

In fact, Ezra, we have next to nothing in the bank.

It is all gone." For a moment the young man stood motionless, glaring at his father.
The expression of incredulity which had appeared on his features faded away before the earnestness of the other, and was replaced by a look of such malignant passion that it contorted his whole face.
"You fool!" he shrieked, springing forward with the book upraised as though he would have struck the old merchant.

"I see it now.

You have been speculating on your own hook, you cursed ass! What have you done with it ?" He seized his father by the collar and shook him furiously in his wrath.
"Keep your hands off me!" the senior partner cried, wrenching himself free from his son's grasp.


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