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The Diary of a Nobody
·
George Grossmith Weedon Grossmith
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I
gave
a
sigh
of
relief.
I
said:
“I
was
not
so
sanguine
as
to
suppose,
as
you
predicted,
that
I
should
get
six
or
eight
times
the
amount
of
my
investment;
still
a
profit
of
£2
is
a
good
percentage
for
such
a
short
time.”
Lupin
said,
quite
irritably:
“You
don’t
understand.
I
sold
your
£20
shares
for
£2;
you
therefore
lose
£18
on
the
transaction,
whereby
Cummings
and
Gowing
will
lose
the
whole
of
theirs.”
FEBRUARY
19.—
Lupin,
before
going
to
town,
said:
“I
am
very
sorry
about
those
Parachikka
Chlorates;
it
would
not
have
happened
if
the
boss,
Job
Cleanands,
had
been
in
town.
Between
ourselves,
you
must
not
be
surprised
if
something
goes
wrong
at
our
office.
Job
Cleanands
has
not
been
seen
the
last
few
days,
and
it
strikes
me
several
people
do
want
to
see
him
very
particularly.”
In
the
evening
Lupin
was
just
on
the
point
of
going
out
to
avoid
a
collision
with
Gowing
and
Cummings,
when
the
former
entered
the
room,
without
knocking,
but
with
his
usual
trick
of
saying,
“May
I
come
in?”
He
entered,
and
to
the
surprise
of
Lupin
and
myself,
seemed
to
be
in
the
very
best
of
spirits.
Neither
Lupin
nor
I
broached
the
subject
to
him,
but
he
did
so
of
his
own
accord.
He
said:
“I
say,
those
Parachikka
Chlorates
have
gone
an
awful
smash!
You’re
a
nice
one,
Master
Lupin.
How
much
do
you
lose?”
Lupin,
to
my
utter
astonishment,
said:
“Oh!
I
had
nothing
in
them.
There
was
some
informality
in
my
application—
I
forgot
to
enclose
the
cheque
or
something,
and
I
didn’t
get
any.
The
Guv.
loses
£18.”
I
said:
“I
quite
understood
you
were
in
it,
or
nothing
would
have
induced
me
to
speculate.”
Lupin
replied:
“Well,
it
can’t
be
helped;
you
must
go
double
on
the
next
tip.”
Before
I
could
reply,
Gowing
said:
“Well,
I
lose
nothing,
fortunately.
From
what
I
heard,
I
did
not
quite
believe
in
them,
so
I
persuaded
Cummings
to
take
my
£15
worth,
as
he
had
more
faith
in
them
than
I
had.”
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