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"How absurd!" she said

"It is rather absurd I'm so absolutely useless It's only

because of the relationship that Mr Craig is doing this"

She said uneasily: "You are not really serious, are you?"

"Grimly serious"

"About a--a desk and a salary--in my brother-in-law's office?"

"Unless you'll hiredesk and a s, and

the h to be your

brother-in-law And I said, 'I am Philip Ormond Berkley; how do

you do!' And he said, 'How do you do!' And I said, 'I'm a

relation,' and he said, 'I believe so' And I said, 'I was

educated at Harvard and in Leipsic; I am full of useless

accomplishments, harmless erudition, and insolvent aive me a position?'"

"And he said: 'What else is the matter?' And I said, 'The stock

market' And that is how it remains, I am to call on hiive me I did not think you meant

it I did not know that you were--were----"

"Ruined!" he nodded laughingly "I am, practically I have a

little left--badly invested--which I'h"