It is his success -- not mine -- and here to-day , since we have agreed to say what is too often left to be said over a coffin lid , I thank him for all he did for me , and tell him that there is nothing I am more proud of and thankful for than such a brother . '' Robert had looked up at last , amazed , bewildered , incredulous . His face crimsoned as Malcolm sat down . 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 XXXXX my money .
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