Ha, ha, ha! And we pay 'em
too--perhaps. Ha, ha, ha!'
'But there's responsibility in that,' said Jonas, looking doubtful.
'I take it all myself,' said Tigg Montague. 'Here I am responsible for
everything. The only responsible person in the establishment! Ha,
ha, ha! Then there are the Life Assurances without loans; the common
policies. Very profitable, very comfortable. Money down, you know;
repeated every year; capital fun!'
'But when they begin to fall in,' observed Jonas. 'It's all very well,
while the office is young, but when the policies begin to die--that's
what I am thinking of.'
'At the first start, my dear fellow,' said Montague, 'to show you how
correct your judgment is, we had a couple of unlucky deaths that brought
us down to a grand piano.'
'Brought you down where?' cried Jonas.
'I give you my sacred word of honour,' said Tigg Montague, 'that I
raised money on every other individual piece of property, and was left
alone in the world with a grand piano. And it was an upright-grand too,
so that I couldn't even sit upon it. But, my dear fellow, we got over
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