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not only in supplying increasing demands for Velox and our other papers, but engaged also on research on various matters relating to our industry [[strikethrough]] our [[/strikethrough]] and no competent man to help me in these matters. - I felt glad that due to my foresight and successful work with American paper we were now well prepared for what I had dreaded might occur. - But I wanted to hear what proposition Eastman was going to make. So I went to Europe within a few days, and there in Brussels at the office of the Société Generale met Eastman and Steinbach and the men of  Blanchet 
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Kléber frères. The latter had to jolly me and seemed apologetic assuring me I would be well taken care of etc. Then Eastman arrived 
I had never seen him before. He was thin, pale, stern looking as if he never in his life had smiled and tactiturn. The others bowed deep for him, while he returned a stiff nod while glancing at me.
He began by saying that our sales were making disquietening inroads on his own sales of Solio and Aristo paper. That he had undertaken the monopoly of furnishing the paper of the two firms to us and other users in America, and that he