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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER TWO: The Wizard of Finance
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But it was enough.

And as his patients always got well--there being nothing wrong with them--his reputation was immense.
Very naturally the Wizard and his wife were impressed with him.

They had never seen such therapeutics in Cahoga County, where the practice of medicine is carried on with forceps, pumps, squirts, splints, and other instruments of violence.
The waiter had hardly gone when a boy appeared at the door.

This time he presented to Tomlinson not one telegram but a little bundle of them.
The Wizard read them with a lengthening face.

The first ran something like this, "Congratulate you on your daring market turned instantly"; and the next, "Your opinion justified market rose have sold at 20 points profit"; and a third, "Your forecast entirely correct C.P.


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