Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress

ERSATION OVER

usand dollars, having made a twenty-five-thousand-dollar reduction by way of a donation to the cause. Johnny drove back into the city rapidly-for he was now only sixteen hours ahead of his schedule

iss Purry that scheme went adrift through the sudden disagreement of the uncertain Wobbles brothers who owned the land. It was a day of fa

. Two fli

miled-and added a climax. "Jacobs attached your account at

h to-day," returned Johnny

quietly. "A trap was laid to make him

a goat I'll get Gresham's," declare

red," sta

y. "I do wish they'd let me alone,

ny Gamble was compelled reluctantly to enter "flivvers" against his

ught up with my schedule. At four o'clock I'll be ten thousand d

your score keeper, to tell you that from this hour you will be running i

that?" he ea

e by this morning's paper that the working-girls' home is

" he confessed. "Wasn't the

that there is a great deal of ill feeling among the neighbors, who clubbed together and bought the op

ike a terrific waste of time to have to wait a month before he coul

ented her. "I'll go right after that proper

eturned with businesslike preparedness: "Mr. James Jameson-G

king-girls, I guess. That's a fine crowd of information you've

commission in the five-thousand-dollar hours you donate to the Babies' Fu

such a thrill of startled intensity in his to

t to me, won't you, as soon as you find out whether you can secure the property

phone open, trying to think of something else to say unt

sing the quarter-of-a-million mark; and after he had taken her home from the dinner she had sat

l? Suddenly Johnny remembered Val Russel's jo

et after the scalps of Gresham and Collaton," he decla

familiarly known among his associates as Jim Guff, rec

ver to our wives to do with as they pleased. We're to have a

," offered Johnny, "and I'll have you a bona f

observed

rand and, that evening, to explain it more fully he went out to he

'Shaunessy, was to have magnificent headquarters on Riverside Drive-and he immediately went to see Mr. Guff. Mike O'Shaunessy was a notoriou

as furious

elephoned me an authorization to send for th

ed Johnny, "Not

rroborated Guff. "Wh

r," Johnny admitted. "He stu

t-up job in the first place. By the way, Gamble, yo

ed Johnny. "Possibly I'd bet

the women,"

r Johnny tel

the option from Ja

ped Guff, a

rty and that he himself was now four hours behind his schedule, with

en quinine. In view of her recent experiences she was inclined to call the police the moment Johnny stated his errand, but he promptly referred her to some ge

ase this option is that nothing but a first-class apartment-house, of not less than ten stori

ent to that effect,"

you offer us fo

king a conservative guess at the amount

expression told him that

ten thousand," he

nce into dollars and cents with great accuracy, knew instantly that their two options had cost them thirty thousand dollars, an

e still further amended. "I am prepar

ng at once," she informed h

tate of mind might be; and she was very glad indeed that, so long as Miss Purry insisted on permitting a building of any sort to be erec

of diamonds without visible effort, bewailed the innovation that Miss Purry was forcing on them, but f

bed it, whose voice scratched and whose whole personality suggested the rasp o

their superb river view and the general superiority of the Slosher lo

felt that Mrs. Ma

t afternoon Johnny

hours behind schedule-$35,000.

set th

d. To a c