"Yes--all of that, and it will be worth more presently under Duncan's management. What a fellow that is, anyhow!"
"I imagine Tandy thinks so by this time."
As there was no other bank in Cairo, and nobody else who could make a loan such as Tandy must have on the instant, he was simply compelled to make the sale on Hallam's own terms.
With Hallam's check in hand, he hurried to the X National, arriving there just in time to meet Guilford Duncan's demand.
Duncan received the check in the bank parlor, again insisting that Leftwich should be present at the interview.
"I'll take that paper, if you please," Tandy said, holding out his hand for it.
"Not until you shall have adjusted the other matter. The bank's books show that, while you were still president of the institution, you made a loa
