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agency without my Company's con sent in writing is still in force or not.
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whether the agreement
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Thus, as Messrs. Reiss's last word to us was that our contract with them would cease absolutely on the 30th June last a statement re- peated by them by way of this cable of the Hongkong Bank the only and obvious course for them to follow was to abide by their cm decision; and, as is the custom between all honorable business men, to facilitate even the passing over to others of the business, thus abandoned by them.
Only on the 28th ulto., that is three days before the receipt
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in New York of this cable, I wrote my partner, br. E.J. Carroll:
We shall soon see whether Reise and prevail surrender the business quietly, giving the usual assis-
should London persist tance to those other parties in Hongkong and Canton who will be their successors, so that no loss and inconvenience is caused to the Texas Company and us.
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test!
That will be the test anà,
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The foregoing shows how Messrs. Reiss & Co. have stood this
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I have conscientiously tried to hide their extraordinary atti- tude from outsiders, even at the risk of breaking my Company's obligations! to the Texas Company and others, and I have not even told Mr. Wade Gard- ner, often as I saw him, but in view of such and similar attempts and blunders, I am helpless. Imagine, as I respectfully ask you. this
crowning and most fatal blunder of asking the gentleman just named to interview the Texas people and to try to prevail upon them to break their engagements with my Company, under threats such as thie cable of the Hong- keng Bank contains; and this apart from the fact that Messrs. Reiss & Company, by thus approaching the Texas Company, have not only broken the
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