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Flowing Gold

CHAPTER I
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Please add your tip to the check, and--make it two dollars.

I'd like to have you serve me every morning, for I cannot abide an acid face at breakfast.

It sours my whole day." Calvin Gray finished his breakfast, smoked a second cigarette as he scanned the morning paper, then he dressed himself with meticulous care.

He possessed a tall, erect, athletic form, his perfectly fitting clothes had that touch of individuality affected by a certain few of New York's exclusive tailors, and when he finally surveyed himself in the glass, there was no denying the fact that he presented an appearance of unusual distinction.

As he turned away, his eyes fell upon the scanty handful of small coins which the waiter had removed from his pocket and for a moment he stared at them reflectively, then he scooped them into his palm and, with a smile, announced to his image: "It would seem that it is time for us to introduce ourselves to the management." He was humming a tune as he strode out of his richly furnished quarters.
The Governor's suite at the Ajax is on the mezzanine floor, at the head of the grand staircase.


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