CHAPTER FOUR
Prior to their leaving Jacobson & Co. the two girls had used their lunch hours to visit the various other small brokerage firms, and had finally come to an agreement with Sternfeld & Hertz. This was a much smaller company than Jacobson, but the manager, Robert Sternfeld, having checked the two young ladies out thoroughly, decided they were an acceptable risk. And so, on Monday morning, bright and early, the two girls entered the Sternfeld & Hertz Trust Department. This department was run by fifty-year-old Ed Horner. Horner, though a little pudgy, was totally unlike Paul Fink. He was easygoing, intelligent, with a constant sleepy-eyed look belying the clever brain behind them. He had kinky, dark hair, and wore half-glasses perched on the tip of his nose.
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