Can you get it
for me, my child?'
'Yes, and more. I will try to get you the whole amount. Wait for me here
twenty minutes or half an hour.'
George Wentworth was very much surprised when he saw Edith Longworth
enter his office. It had been many months since she was there before, and
he cordially held out his hand to the girl.
'Mr. Wentworth,' she began at once, 'have you any of the money the mica
mine has brought you?'
'Yes. I invested the first year's proceeds, but, since I got the last
amount, things have been so shaky in the City that it is still at the
bank.'
'Will you lend me--_can_ you lend me five thousand pounds of it?'
'Of, course I can, and will; and very glad I am to get the chance of
doing so.'
'Then, please write me out a cheque for it at once, and whatever papers
you want as security, make them out, and I will see that you are
secured.'
'Look here, Miss Longworth,' said the young man, placing his hands on his
hips and gazing at her, 'do you mean to insult me? Do you not know that
the reason I am able to write out a cheque for five thousand pounds, that
will be honoured, is entirely because you trusted your money to me and
Kenyon without security? Do you think I want security? Take back the
word, Miss Longworth.'
'I will--I will,' she said; 'but I am in a great hurry. Please write me
out the cheque, for I must have it before the bank closes.'
The cheque was promptly written out and handed to her.
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