This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...maintained for the pure and philanthropic purpose of preventing any other company from establishing a representative there. It was not, therefore, an unlooked-for disappointment to the syndicate when their delegate failed to show a profit on his first balance-sheet, and they passed his infinitesimal salary without a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...maintained for the pure and philanthropic purpose of preventing any other company from establishing a representative there. It was not, therefore, an unlooked-for disappointment to the syndicate when their delegate failed to show a profit on his first balance-sheet, and they passed his infinitesimal salary without a murmur, content in that he showed no disposition to attempt escape from the terms of the contract under which they had netted him. Half-year after half-year passed soddenly, and the only indents from Sd that showed any increase were those for "medical comforts" and, since they could be lawfully debited against the sender's salary account, they were duly executed, so that case upon case of poisonous spirits went up-river with the half-yearly launch, which, on the other hand, never returned overladen. The Sub-Assistant-Manager, who also went the round of the back-creek stations, of which Sd was one, did not report favourably upon that particular post, but, for the politic reasons already mentioned, little notice was taken of his animadversions. Even his direct complaint that Mr. Archibald had "cheeked him most infernally" upon two successive visits was passed over in contemptuous silence by the all-powerful Manager on the Coast. Ernest Archibald was of too slight importance in the scale of things, things as they are graded on the Coast, to have any attention paid him as long as he merely existed, a stumblingblock in the path of rival companies. By some extraordinary process of reasoning, however, Archibald had succeeded in convincing himself that he was of importance. Two bases he had to work upon, and these were undeniable. First, there was the fact that he held fast in bondage to the bottle the head-man of the native village...
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