Making Money

marked the definite surrender of the last recalcitrant members of New York society to the ambitions of Mrs. Drake. Suc

nd side streets and necessitated a special detachment of the police to prevent the mob of enthusiastic democrats fro

heir taxicab and forcing their way on foot to the front. Marsh, who wa

aniel D. on the wrong side of the market ever since Drake trimmed him in a wheat corner in Chicago. By Jove, the Fontaines and the Gunthe

g. "It's Mrs. Drake's night-she'

ot a feminine will to contend with, so make your mind up to the inevitable. There's Haggerdy's party now-every ba

w s

to make sure they'll have to invite you to some function or other where everybody must be seen. Well

ie affected him disagreeably. DeLancy had deserted them to rus

Marsh, studying the blond p

's some sort of

is head. "The trouble with Fred is he thinks he's a cold thinking

a certain person

one of Mr. Drake's secretar

, Mr. Crocker? Mr. Drake has been as

iage settlement, Ma?tre Vondin, a stubby, black-bearded Frenchman imported for the occasion, coldly incredulous and suavely insistent, t

now quite satisfie

n smiled in t

swarm of flies and signed his name to a document that was plac

ondrin," said Drake, rising angrily. "There woul

, Ma?tre Vondrin, punctilious and unruffled, bowing t

r immediatel

now. By heavens, if he'd sprung these tactics on me a week a

transfer of property, insisting on having every security placed before his eyes, personally examining them all, wra

said. "Tom, mark my words, if ever this precious Duke comes to me for money-as, mark my words, he will-I'll make him

wing what to say, and Dr

k a turn or two and said abruptly, trying to convey more than he expressed: "Don't wait too long. It's a bad atmosphere, all this-there are influences-it isn't fair to the girl, to Doris. Money be damned! I'll see you never have to ask your wife for pocket mo

st out laughing. His eyes s

d. Go in and take a look at Doris. She's a sight for tired eyes." He hel

by the dramatic sympathies the older man knew how to a

o's arm under his, he added: "Come on. I've

th every art of dressmaker and hairdresser, revealed in a sinuous arrangement of black chiffon with mysterious sudden sheens of gold. She came to him at once, expectancy in her

ation, "to witness some papers. Say, Doris,

at happened. There's been a dreadful row, I know, for days. Mother

e settlements. Your father

e said. "I've kept what I could for you-the

g all over. She even favored me. Look o

e going to be one of t

ng, at her own personal triumph and the good looks of her partner. "I want something I can make myself, and we'll do it too. Just

, exhilarated with the thought of little supremacies in regions of brilliant lights and dre

d Oil? I was right back of her when she wandered into some Louis or other room, and what did she do? She ran her thu

ng business. In the ante-chamber where the great marble staircase came winding down,

They're even quo

wn the stairs to his s

re any place we can hide?

ould have known you

d, with an indignant pou

her eyes at his bewilderment, her chin saucily tilted,

way the model

e said stupidly, troubled at th

he said, pretend

ive compliment and s

to make a terrible amount o

oo

e mischief you're cau

Dolly and Doris stared at me as if I were a gho

won't chan

d to tease him she cont

to give her a lecture, but i

hink of your b

oul about me while you thought I was nothing but a tomboy and a ter

you know tha

nted wit

I knew this old money would find me," she said, suddenly perceiving a plump youngster

she had made on him, constantly following her in the confusion of the da

up, discussed their host; that is, Borneman discussed and Haggerdy, st

Marcus Stone. "Dukes come high.

a curious air of always being in his shirt-sleeves. A long, sliding nose, lips pursed like a catfish, every feature se

to believe Drake's o

e's stocked up with Indiana Smelter, and a lot of other things too. I happen to know. He's long-mighty lon

ow

ggerdy. "Two million perhaps-and in securities, Jim; nothing speculative; gilt-edged bonds. That's a mill

el

e don't see one million going out-without itch

the crowd and perceived them in consultation. A glance at the

d, coming up; "being

king than the one Fontaine picked up," said Borneman. "Dukes are expensive articl

, if I made up my mind to try a little flyer-just to pay

commend?" said B

you think about ge

y. Values are 'way above where they ought to be. Prices are coming tumbling s

ish, eh?" said Drake, as th

certai

and Seaboard Air Line, one thousand Pennsylvania, and one thousand Pittsburgh & New Orleans. Just as a feeler, Al. Perh

one man he had fought persistently, at every turn biding his time, it was Daniel D

"He thinks he can fool me. He's i

said Haggerd

I won't believe him. Anyhow, Dan's got something sta

ed and scratc