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. He was
particularly out of sorts because Miss Purry had mentioned that the
De Luxe Apartments Company had been after the plot. It is small
satisfaction to a loser to have his judgment corroborated.

There was a Bronx project, involving the promotion of a huge
exclusive subdivision, which he had hoped to launch; but during his
call on Miss Purry that scheme went adrift through the sudden
disagreement of the uncertain Wobbles brothers who owned the land.
It was a day of failures; and at four o'clock he returned to the
office and inscribed, upon the credit side of his unique little day-
book, the laconic entry:

"April 28. Two flivvers. $0."

Loring, pausing behind him and looking over his shoulder, smiled--
and added a climax. "Jacobs attached your account at the Garfield
Bank to-day on that fifty-thousand-dollar note."

"That's my first good laugh to-day," returned Johnny. "I have no
funds there."

"Gresham thought you had," said Loring quietly. "A trap was laid to
make him think so, and he walked right into it."

"As soon as I have any place to keep a goat I'll get Gresham's,"
declared Johnny. "So he's really in on it."