“Do all of your customers make the same offer to you?” I asked.
“No,” he answered.
“Then why were you so sure that I was going to make it?”
“It is what your type of sport would do. You are a first-class loser and that makes you a first-class business man. I am much obliged to you, but I can’t do it.”
“Now tell me why you do not wish to make more than your commission?”
“It isn’t that exactly,” he said. “I am not working just for the commission.”
“What are you working for then?”
“For the commission and the record,” he answered.
“What record?”
“Mine.”