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When Eric and Phil met at their desks on Monday morning the banker's son was "savage as a meat-ax. " He scowled and muttered over his work and slammed the big books here and there as if he owed them a grudge.
Phil paid no attention to this exhibition of temper, which he believed due to the failure of Riverdale to win the boat race. He knew that Eric had been betting heavily with his cronies and the Bayport people, and since the young man was already deeply in debt these added losses might affect him, seriously. So Phil devoted himself quietly to work and let Eric rave.