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Putnam, clean shaven, with sharply cut Yankee features, sat shufiling the cards. He leant back comfortably in the leather-covered club armchair and relit his cigar. Things were going we Hwith him, for he was an important shareholder in the Bethlehem Steel Works, was on the board of directors and helped to control the manufacture of munitions for England. Glowing with well-being he sat and watched his friend Franklin Price, who was reading the latest edition of the New York Times. At last Putnam spoke laconically: Steel is higher than Baltimore-O hios now, Franklin !T hey are, returned the other dryly. But you must also remember that the insurance rate has gone up another 2J%. Putnam had spoken in order to tease his old friend, for Price was a director of the Baltimore-O hio and had been con laining for several weeks that railway stocks were on the down-grade. But now Putnam himself felt uneasy. He leant over the newspaper.
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