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A Kingly Crown
BE h~.M rAiN ，e or \"Bee/y\" Ehninger， had always known that
from clerk to partner in Shepard， Putney &
Cox had not been wholly due to his legal aptitude. He was
aware that he was a competent lawyer and comfortably con-
scious of his popularity with partners and associates alike， but
he was also very much aware of the large and devoted family
of sisters and cousins and aunts who， through the years， had
faithfully made up a large part of his clientele. Such clan
loyalty is not characteristic of New York， but it is sometimes
found among the issue of \"robber barons.\" Money can be
thicker than blood， and tile hundred-odd surviving descen-
dants of Augustus Means， railroad magnate of the 187os， con-
tained several dozen still well-to-do individuals who remem-
bered the common origin of their good fortunes and were glad
enough to help each other out. Only a small number of the
males had gone into law， and Beeky was the beneficia~ of this
statistic. It had helped to keep him youthful， right up to the
age of fifty-six. Being \"Young Beeky\" to aging and aged
clients seemed appropriate to his vivid check suits and bow
ties， to his large， staring， lemurish eyes， to his diminutive，
agile， \"smart kid\" figure. Beeky liked to think of himself as the
naive young hero who always outsmarted the villain in the si-
lent film comedies of his boyhood.
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