114 WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



"Dunn hasn't paid for that ten gold." 



I broke for Dunn's office just as another bro- 

 ker appeared on the same errand as mine. 

 Bread cast upon the water sometimes comes 

 back, in spite of the proverb to that effect, and 

 I was glad to remember as I sprinted for the 

 office of Lee S. Dunn & Co. that only the day 

 previous I had loaned him at simple interest 

 some money he needed, even though a small pre- 

 mium was being bid for loans at the time. I 

 burst into Dunn's office and seeing him behind 

 the counter, exclaimed, as I scratched our en- 

 dorsement "without recourse" on the back of the 

 Mumford check: 



"Give me your check for this one, Dunn, and 

 pay Mumford what you owe him with his own 

 check." 



Dunn had sense and without even looking a 

 question the check was drawn, signed, and passed 

 over to me in record time, and as I left his office 

 I collided with another broker whose errand 

 was the same as mine, but who hadn't run quite 

 as fast. 



