“I have not said that anything is wrong. It is merely a matter of business policy. The loan is a heavy one.”
“It is well secured.”
“I do not question that.”
“The paper has turned the corner. We are making money to-day.”
“To-day—you are.”
“And we shall make more from now on.”
“A(c)h!” observed the banker with his buried guttural. “That is prophecy.”
“Based on facts and figures. I can show them to you.”
“No need.”
Jeremy reflected, with an unpleasant sensation of being spied upon, that probably the local banks knew as much of the financial side of his business as he himself did; perhaps more.