Alpha Book

"So you have committed the firm to the Siowitha deal?" he inquired
coolly.
Neergard looked up--and then past him: "No, not the firm. You did not
seem to be interested in the scheme, so I went on without you. I'm
swinging it for my personal account."
"Is Mr. Erroll in it?"
"I said that it was a private matter," replied Neergard, but his manner
was affable.
"I thought so; it appears to me like a matter quite personal to you and
characteristic of you, Mr. Neergard. And that being established, I am
now ready to dissolve whatever very loose ties have ever bound me in any
association with this company and yourself."
Neergard's close-set black eyes shifted a point nearer to Selwyn's; the
sweat on his nose glistened.
"Why do you do this?" he asked slowly. "Has anybody offended you?"
"Do you _really_ wish to know?"
"Yes, I certainly do, Captain Selwyn."
"Very well; it's because I don't like your business methods, I don't
like--several other things that are happening in this office.


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