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"Together we had
made a failure of partnership. When that partnership was dissolved,
there remained the joint capital to be divided. And I divided it. Why
not?"
"That capital was yours in the beginning; not mine. What I had of my own
you never controlled; and I took it with me when I went."
"It was very little," he said.
"What of that? Did that concern you? Did you think I would have accepted
anything from you? A thousand times I have been on the point of
notifying you through attorney that the deposit now standing in my name
is at your disposal."
"Why didn't you notify me then?" he asked, reddening to the temples.
"Because--I did not wish to hurt you--by doing it that way. . . . And I
had not the courage to say it kindly over my own signature. That is why,
Captain Selwyn."
And, as he remained silent: "That is what I had to say; not
all--because--I wish to--to thank you for offering it. . . . You did not
have very much, either; and you divided what you had.


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