1、"Did you ever hear any more from that wholesale house?"

2、He needed the money to pay off his account with the big Shanghai wholesale house.

3、But the "debit" ledger showed a figure of eight hundred dollars owed to the big Shanghai wholesale house alone. lie owed a total of not less than two thousand dot lags !

4、Unwilling to borrow from the local bank at exorbitant interest, he sought out the collector from the Shanghai wholesale house, to plead with him as a friend for a delay of another day or two.

5、But the collector from the Shanghai wholesale house to which Mr. Lin owed money would probably come tomorrow or the day after. Lin's only alternative was to borrow more from the local bank.

6、It gave an imposing appearance to most of the wholesale houses.

7、The wholesale houses are not openhanded with credit for unproved shops.

8、So the friend, a buyer for one of the Chicago wholesale houses, felt, perforce, the necessity of stopping.