11/17 Want some stock, Polly ?" "I'll take all I can reach if you're leading it around," she assured him. "I can't take much, but I'll make Daddy Parsons go in, and I'll be a nuisance to every moneyed man I know." "By the by, where's the fifteen thousand I made Saturday ?" Johnny asked. "I just deposited it." "Why did you take it away from me--if it's any of my business ?" he wanted to know. "Gresham was all peeved up because you took fifteen thousand away from him in front of Constance. Loring saw Gresham and your old partner talking together immediately afterward; and he told me that they might frame up some crooked scheme to grab the money. |