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Phil rose slowly and extended his hand to his partner . `` Jim , you 're a wonder -- a blooming wizard . '' Jim grinned , but he was well pleased . `` If it had n't been for your opinion , rammed well down my throat morning , noon and night , I guess the Langford-Ralston Financial Corporation would not be quite so well thought of after this comes out , as it will be in the light of the quiet but persistent advice it has given its clients . And to think of it -- your father wires as if he were the absolute and only detector of this information , while it was your letter of six months ago that set him on the hunt for it and started him on his conservatism regarding loans in general . '' Jim laughed . `` That 's just my old dad 's way , Phil .