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"Personal resentment," said Neergard slowly, "never interferes with my
business. I take it, of course, that you have called upon a business
matter. Will you sit down?"
"Thank you; I have only a moment. And what I am here for is to ask you,
as Mr. Erroll's friend, to use your influence on Mr. Erroll--every atom
of your influence--to prevent him from ruining himself financially
through his excesses. I ask you, for his family's sake, to
discountenance any more gambling; to hold him strictly to his duties in
your office, to overlook no more shortcomings of his, but to demand from
him what any trained business man demands of his associates as well as
of his employees. I ask this for the boy's sake."
Neergard's close-set eyes focussed a trifle closer to Selwyn's, yet did
not meet them.
"Mr. Selwyn," he said, "have you come here to criticise the conduct of
my business?"
"Criticise! No, I have not. I merely ask you--"
"You are merely asking me," cut in Neergard, "to run my office, my
clerks, and my associate in business after some theory of your own.


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