The Competitive Nephew

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Glass Montague. The Competitive Nephew

CHAPTER ONE. THE COMPETITIVE

CHAPTER TWO. OPPORTUNITY

CHAPTER THREE. THE SORROWS OF SEIDEN

CHAPTER FOUR. SERPENTS' TEETH

CHAPTER FIVE. MAKING OVER MILTON

CHAPTER SIX. BIRSKY & ZAPP

CHAPTER SEVEN. THE MOVING PICTURE WRITES

CHAPTER EIGHT. COERCING MR. TRINKMANN

CHAPTER NINE "RUDOLPH WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN"

CHAPTER TEN. CAVEAT EMPTOR

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"What is brokers?" Mr. Marcus Shimko asked. "A broker is no good, otherwise he wouldn't be a broker. Brokers is fellers which they couldn't make a success of their own affairs, Mr. Zamp, so they butt into everybody else's. Particularly business brokers, Mr. Zamp. Real-estate brokers is bad enough, and insurings brokers is a lot of sharks also; but for a cutthroat, a low-life bum, understand me, the worst is a business broker!"

"That's all right, too, Mr. Shimko," Harry Zamp said timidly; "but if I would get a partner with say, for example, five hundred dollars, I could make a go of this here business."

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"What are you doing, Zamp?" Shimko exclaimed. "At two o'clock the store would be empty!"

"Would it?" Zamp retorted, as he eyed a well-dressed youth who paused in front of the show-window. "Well, maybe it would and maybe it wouldn't; and, anyhow, Mr. Shimko, if there wouldn't be no customers here, we would anyhow got plenty of cutting to do. Besides, Shimko, customers is like sheep. If you get a run of 'em, one follows the other."

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