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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER TWO: The Wizard of Finance
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But how?
Who did they know that would take it?
It had crossed their minds--for who could live in the City a month without observing the imposing buildings of Plutoria University, as fine as any departmental store in town ?--that they might give it to the college.
But there, it seemed, the way was blocked.
"You see, mother," said the puzzled Wizard, "we're not known.

We're strangers.

I'd look fine going up there to the college and saying, 'I want to give you people a million dollars.' They'd laugh at me!" "But don't one read it in the papers," his wife had protested, "where Mr.Carnegie gives ever so much to the colleges, more than all we've got, and they take it ?" "That's different," said the Wizard.

"He's in with them.

They all know him.


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