[Five Thousand an Hour by George Randolph Chester]@TWC D-Link bookFive Thousand an Hour CHAPTER V 4/17
This morning is when I begin to use your desk-room.
Here's your dollar a day until four P.M., May thirty-first." And he handed Loring thirty-eight dollars. "You're not really going to try that absurd stunt ?" protested Loring incredulously. "I have to.
Miss Joy will think I'm a four-flusher if I don't." "Miss Joy again!" laughed Loring.
"You only met her Saturday, and I don't think you've thought of another thing since." "Gresham and her million," corrected Johnny, and he started for the door. "Where are you going--if anybody should ask for you ?" inquired Loring. "Fourth National." "To deposit Gresham's fifteen thousand ?" "No," laughed Gamble.
"Polly took that away from me." "That's a good safe place for it," returned Loring, relieved. "Safe as the mint," corroborated Johnny, and hurried out. As he went up the steps of the Fourth National Bank a pallid-faced young man, with eyebrows, eyelashes and hair so nearly the color of his skin that they were invisible, watched him out of the window of a taxi that had been standing across the street ever since the bank had opened.
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