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The firm of Black and Gram had something of a reputation in City circles. Gram might have been a man beyond reproach -- a veritable Bayard of finance, a churchgoer, and a generous subscriber to charities. Indeed, Black complained with good-humoured irritation -- if the combination can be visualized -- that Gram would ruin him one of these fine days by his quixotic munificence.
Gram allowed his heart to dictate to his head; he was too soft for business, too retiring. The City was very sceptical about Gram. It compared him with a certain Mrs. Harris, but Black did not fly into a temper; he smiled mysteriously at all the suspicion which the City entertained or expressed, and went on deploring the criminal rustiness of a man who apparently sought, by Black's account, to made the firm reputable in spite of the rumours which centred about Colonel J. Black.