Uneasy Money

ough the world. He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare. Pi

w couldn't say noblesse oblige without upsetting the universe. Why shouldn't a fell

ten time. Could she be blamed for wanting him to make money? No. Yet whenever she made suggestions as to how the thing was to be done, he snubbed her by saying noblesse oblige. Naturally a refined and sensitive young girl objected to

e. He disentangled himself from a pedestrian

axi and directed the

nd In

nness in the middle of Piccadilly was the same at which some ce

o to America!' The exact words probably which Colum

teen-something and again in eighteen-something, but that things had eventually been straightened out by Miss Edna May and her fellow missionaries of the Belle of New York Company, since which

wspaperman who had come to England a few months before to act as his paper's London correspondent. He was generally

He had just

g-room, which he had selected because silence was compulsory there, thus rendering it possible for tw

an idea,

ed. Co

ber what you were sa

saying abo

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the

was rather a melancholy young man, with

!' he

ped. By no mental jugg

pression of enthus

w York for pleasure, instructing your man Willoughby to see that the trunks were jolly well packed and wiring to the skipper of your

devilish

with the rent?' said

lau

How much money do you think I've got? Four hundred pounds a ye

hought you were r

ve you t

your finances. In New York we all wear labels, stating our incomes and prospects in clear lettering. Well, if it's like that it's different, of course. Th

ty a trial. Anyway, I can give yo

wfully go

luding to you as my f

iam S

egie and that lot have swiped all the soft jobs. But if you go over as Lord Dawlish you won't even get that. Lords are popular socially in America, but are not used to any great extent in the office. If you try to break in under your righ

s

on Smith as

fully keen on the name Smith

please. How would

know, that if I took

t forg

would forget Jones I doubt if eve

ot Cha

asier to memori

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ht as well u

ully good

o the place. I left some Japanese prints there, and my favourite nightmare is that someone has broken in and sneaked them.

ckspur Street to buy his ticket for New York. This done, he set out t

message. The telephone attendants at London clubs are masters of suggestive brevity. The one in the basement of Brown's had written on Bill's slip of paper the w

tell him was that he had received stable information about some horse or

the offices of the eminent law firm of Nichols, Nichols, Nichols, and Nichols,