Author: GOULD, NAT.
Title: Banker And Broker.
Description: Modern Publishing Edition; 8vo; pp. 253; endpaper advertisements; original red cloth, title lettered in black on spine, spine faded, a good copy. London, The Modern Publishing Company, n.d. 'Cyril Melrose was a Sydney banker whose financial genius had made him at a comparatively early age one of the most trusted men in Australia. He had done great things for the bank, and the directors had done great things for him. He had a charming wife, as good as she was beautiful, two fine children, a crack yacht, and a splendid house. In an evil hour he took to horse-racing and gambling, with their inevitable consequences. He appropriated the bank's money, and ultimately found himself in jail. It need not be said that this consummation was achieved by the aid of extraordinary villainy on the part of some of Mr Melrose's acquaintances, and that what reparation was possible was made by a platonic friend of the victim's wife'- Glasgow Herald Review.

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