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It may be said of Bones that he was in the City, but not of it Never

once had he been invited by the great and awe-inspiring men who

dominate the finance of the City to participate in any of those

adventurous undertakings which produce for the adventurers the fabulous

profits about which so much has been written There were times when

Bones even doubted whether the City kneas in it

He never realised his own insignificance so poignantly as when he

strolled through the City streets at their busiest hour, and was

unrecognised even by the bareheaded clerks who dashedpapers of tremendous importance

The indifference of the City to Mr Tibbetts and his partner was reat land and arrange the bank rate knew

not Bones nor his work It is equally true that the very ies who occupy suites of rooms in Lombard Street had little or

no idea of his existence But there were men, and rich and famous men

at that, who had inscribed the name of Bones in indelible ink on the

tablets of their memory

The Pole Brothers were shipbrokers, and had little in common, in their

daily transactions, with Mr Harold de Vinne, who specialised in

industrial stocks, and knew little more about ships than could be