Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by George Randolph Chester
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together immediately afterward; and he told me that they might frame
up some crooked scheme to grab the money. I didn't have a chance to explain, so I asked you to indorse the check to me." "Do you think Collaton's crooked?" Johnny asked with a queer smile. "I can think he's crooked without batting an eyelash. I can think it about Gresham too." "Why do you have that idea about Gresham?" "Because I don't like him," she triumphantly argued. "Shake!" invited Johnny. "I know six reasons why I can do without him. What are your six?" "One is because I don't like him, and another is because he's going to marry Constance, and the other four are because I don't like him," she calmly summed up. "Does Constance say he's going to marry her?" he inquired crisply. "Not in so many words." "Then I don't believe it. I wouldn't marry him for six millions." "Constance can't be so careless. If they break you they can't sprint fast enough to keep it; but if they take it away from Constance she's broke." |
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