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Toward the close of a pleasant September afternoon, in one of the years when the big stick of President Roosevelt was cudgeling the shoulders of malefactors of great wealth, the feverish home-bound masses which poured into upper Fifth Avenue with the awakening of the electric night were greeted by the strangest of all spectacles which can astound a metropolitan crowd harassed by the din of sounds, the fret and fury of the daily struggle which is the tyranny of New York. A very young man, of clean-cut limbs and boyish countenance, absolutely unhurried amidst the press, without a trace of preoccupation, worry, or painful mental concentration,. | Making Money by Owen Johnson 1 Making Money by Owen Johnson The Project Gutenberg EBook of Making Money by Owen Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Making Money Author Owen Johnson Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg Release Date September 19 2010 EBook 33761 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Making Money by Owen Johnson 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAKING MONEY Produced by Annie McGuire Illustration Book Cover MAKING MONEY Illustration Bojo you must marry Doris she said brokenly MAKING MONEY BY OWEN JOHNSON AUTHOR OF THE SALAMANDER STOVER AT YALE THE SIXTY-FIRST SECOND ETC. WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG Illustration NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1915 by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE I THE ARRIVAL 1 II FOUR AMBITIONS AND THREE WAYS TO MAKE MONEY 16 III ON THE TAIL OF A TERRIER 31 IV BOJO S FATHER 46 V DANIEL DRAKE THE MULTI-MILLIONAIRE 58 VI BOJO OBEYS HIS GENERAL MANAGER 67 VII UNDER THE TICKER S TYRANNY 75 VIII THE RETURN OF PATSIE 88 IX THE WEDDING BALL 100 X DRAKE S GAME 111 XI BOJO BUTTS IN 122 XII SNOW MAGIC 133 XIII BOJO MAKES A DECISION 147 XIV THE CRASH 154 XV SUDDEN WEALTH 165 XVI BOJO BEGINS TO SPEND HIS QUARTER-MILLION 173 XVII PAYING THE PIPER--PLUS 184 XVIII BOJO FACES THE TRUTH 195 XIX A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK 207 XX BOJO HUNTS A JOB 213 XXI BOJO IN OVERALLS 222 XXII DORIS MEETS A CRISIS 234 XXIII THE LETTER TO PATSIE 247 XXIV PATSIE APPEALS FOR HELP 259 XXV DRAKE ADMITS HIS DANGER 270 XXVI A FIGHT IN MILLIONS 277 XXVII PATSIE S SCHEME 288 XXVIII ONE LAST CHANCE 302 XXIX THE DELUGE 309 XXX THE AFTER-YEARS 323 ILLUSTRATIONS Bojo you must marry Doris she said brokenly Frontispiece FACING PAGE Say you re a judge of muscle .