"May third. To seven hours--nine hours behind schedule--$35,000. To
Purry speculation, $210,000."

To offset this was:

"May third. To a chance, $0."





CHAPTER XI

IN WHICH JOHNNY EXECUTES SOME EXCEEDINGLY RAPID BUSINESS DEALS




Sitting tight and watching the hands of his watch go round, with a
deficit of five thousand dollars an hour piling up against him, was
as hard work as Johnny Gamble had ever done; and yet he knew that,
if he succumbed to impatience and went to the De Luxe Apartments
Company before they came to him, he would relinquish a fifty per
cent, advantage. He saw another day slipping past him, with a total
deficit of sixteen hours behind his schedule--or an appalling
shortage of eighty thousand dollars--when, at one o'clock on
Thursday, the expected happened--and a brisk little man, with a
mustache which would have been highly luxuriant if he had not kept
it bitten off as closely as he could reach it, dropped in, inquired
for Loring, jerked a chair as close to him as he could get it and