"Don't be alarmed; I shall see you in
London." He seated himself in the boat and took the tiller. The last
words they heard him say were words urging the men at the oars to
lose no time. He was invariably brutal with the men. "Pull, you lazy
beggars!" he exclaimed, with an oath. "Pull for your lives!"
THIRD SCENE.
The Money Market.
Let us be serious.--Business!
The new scene plunges us head foremost into the affairs of the Levant
trading-house of Pizzituti, Turlington & Branca. What on earth do we
know about the Levant Trade? Courage! If we have ever known what it is
to want money we are perfectly familiar with the subject at starting.
The Levant Trade does occasionally get into difficulties.--Turlington
wanted money.
The letter which had been handed to him on board the yacht was from his
third partner, Mr. Branca, and was thus expressed:
"A crisis in the trade. All right, so far--except our business with
the small foreign firms. Bills to meet from those quarters, (say) forty
thousand pounds--and, I fear, no remittances to cover them.
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