. The grafter. does it? 192 THE GRAFTER Come on across with the sixty-five, saysNo. 2. Now, young man, youre actually abusingme. You came right up here to my own officeand are grossly insulting me and attemptingto collect money. I dont know who you are,and consequently Ill pay my bills direct tothe house. How were all the folks when youleft No. 2 failed to respond to the remark, andleft the office. No. 3, says Simpkins, youre next. Im from such-and-such a bank, and havea draft on you for fifty dollars, says No. 3. Im glad you called, son, says have been hard pressed for ca
. The grafter. does it? 192 THE GRAFTER Come on across with the sixty-five, saysNo. 2. Now, young man, youre actually abusingme. You came right up here to my own officeand are grossly insulting me and attemptingto collect money. I dont know who you are,and consequently Ill pay my bills direct tothe house. How were all the folks when youleft No. 2 failed to respond to the remark, andleft the office. No. 3, says Simpkins, youre next. Im from such-and-such a bank, and havea draft on you for fifty dollars, says No. 3. Im glad you called, son, says have been hard pressed for cash for thelast few days, and that fifty will help con-siderably. Do you have the money with youto cash ^ continued Simpkins. You misunderstand me, says the BankClerk; I have a draft on you; that is,such-and-such a publishing company requestsour bank to collect the amount of the draftfrom you in payment for advertising you owethem. Young man, says Simpkins, I never heerd of such a thing. Youre a thief, youre. Young man, says Simpkins, I never heerd ofsuch a thing. Youre a thief, youre a robber. 194 THE GRAFTER a robber, you call here at my own office at-tempting to intimidate me and frighten meinto paying you money. You are a black-mailer. Leave the office at once or Ill callthe police. No. 3 egressed. Youre next, No. 4, says Simpkins. Here is a bill for forty dollars advertising,says No. 4. Its a very nice-looking bill, too, saysSimpkins, and I greatly admire the pen-manship of the author of the bill and theartistic manner in which the bill is gotten always did like those Old English type, andthe bill is printed on such good bond paper,too. What are you giving me? says the here to collect this money, and I meanto do it. You may proceed, says Simpkins ; butreally, my boy, you are intimidating me, andyou are not a nice man or you would not talkso roughly. When a bank clerk or collector would cometo the office and talk on the relevant subject,namely, why a certain
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