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The half-yearly directors' meeting of the Menatogen Company had just been held. One by one, those who had attended it were taking their leave. The auditor, with a bundle of papers under his arm, shook hands cordially with the chairman -- Alfred Burton, Esquire -- and Mr. Waddington, and Mr. Bomford, who, during the absence of the professor in Assyria, represented the financial interests of the company.
"A most wonderful report, gentlemen," the auditor pronounced, -- "a business, I should consider, without its equal in the world."