[Five Thousand an Hour by George Randolph Chester]@TWC D-Link bookFive Thousand an Hour CHAPTER X 3/10
"So he's really in on it." "He's scared," stated Loring. "I hope he's right," returned Johnny.
"I do wish they'd let me alone, though, till Thursday, June first." On Saturday, the twenty-ninth, and on Monday, the first of May, Johnny Gamble was compelled reluctantly to enter "flivvers" against his days' labors; and on Tuesday at two o'clock Constance called him up. "Guilty!" he acknowledged as soon as he heard her voice.
"I'm caught up with my schedule.
At four o'clock I'll be ten thousand dollars behind. Everything I touch crawls right back in its shell." "They'll come out again," she encouraged him.
"I didn't call you up, as your score keeper, to tell you that from this hour you will be running in debt to yourself, but that one of your projects has come to life again." "Which one is that ?" he eagerly inquired. "The property owned by that lady on Riverside Drive.
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