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“It must be awful,” said I, “when you are feeling particularly bright and spontaneous, to have some major creditor shown down the aisle right into your handshake.”
“Get back in the car and I’ll tell you about it,” said Hitchy.
“But first I want to tell you about the nickelless morning. I was ashamed to touch anybody for ten or a hundred. So I drove to the bank and borrowed ten thousand. And when that was due, I borrowed fifteen thousand from a friend and paid off the bank and had five thousand to pay housekeeping accounts.
“As long as you’ve got your health and a job, you can borrow. That’s the secret of my finances. I’m always healthy, and always working. And another secret is, always pay the little fellows. Now ”
“Was this a little fellow that walked down the aisle?”
“It was not. It was none less, nor other, than New York’s distinguished money master, Jacob Wertheimer. I grabbed him warmly by the hand and said:
“ ‘How are you, Jake? — this is a pleasure. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to introduce you to my partner, Mr. Jacob Wertheimer. I owe him forty thousand dollars, and he’s never going to get it, and that gives me the right to call him my partner.’
“And Jake beamed, bless him! beamed all over himself — positively liked it. And during the intermission he came back to my dressing room and said:
“ ‘Say, Hitchy, how’d you like to make that eighty thousand?’ ”
“And you ”
“Not then — not then, Ashton! That would have