But now Ralph was getting up . `` I am no orator as Malcolm is , '' he quoted gayly , `` but I 've got a story to tell , too , which only one of you knows . Forty years ago , when I started in life as a business man , money was n't so plentiful with me as it may be to-day . And I needed it badly . A chance came my way to make a pile of it . It was n't a clean chance . It was a dirty chance . It looked square on the surface ; but , underneath , it meant trickery and roguery . I had n't enough perception to see that , though -- I was fool enough to think it was all right . I told Robert what I meant to do . And Robert saw clear through the outward sham to the real , hideous thing underneath . He showed me what it meant and he gave me a preachment about a few Monroe Traditions of truth and honor . I saw what I had been about to do as he saw it -- as all good men and true must see it . And I vowed then and there that I 'd never go into anything that I was n't sure was fair and square and clean through and through . I 've kept that vow . I am a rich man , and not a dollar of my money is ` tainted ' money . But I did n't make it . Robert really made every cent of my money . If it had n't been for him I 'd have been a poor man to-day , or behind prison bars , as are the other men who went into that deal when I backed out . I 've got a son here .
I hope he 'll be as clever XXXXX his Uncle Malcolm ; but I hope , still more earnestly , that he 'll be as good and honorable a man as his Uncle Robert . ''
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