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The President

CHAPTER XIII
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When they move, we meet them.
Should they sell, we buy; should they buy,--which they won't,--we sell; in either event we buy or sell them to a standstill.

Should they connive a 'bear' raid, they'll sell their way into as formidable a corner as ever 'bear' was squeezed in." This befell upon that first visit of Richard to Mr.Bayard.Two days later, Richard returned.

Mr.Gwynn met him, brisk upon the hour, in one of the numerous private rooms of Mr.Bayard, and turned over one hundred millions in certified checks upon those fifty banks.

Richard dismissed Mr.Gwynn and went in to Mr.Bayard.
"I shall deposit these," said Mr.Bayard, "in ten banks, twenty millions in the City Bank and the balance scattered among the other nine.

You may leave the details of our enterprise to me; I have been through many of similar color.


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