THE METROPOLIS

BY

UPTON SINCLAIR

FIRST PUBLISHED 1908

PRINTED BY OFFSET IN GREAT BRITAIN






CHAPTER I





"Return at ten-thirty," the General said to his chauffeur, and then
they entered the corridor of the hotel.

Montague gazed about him, and found himself trembling just a little
with anticipation. It was not the magnificence of the place. The
quiet uptown hotel would have seemed magnificent to him, fresh as he
was from the country; but, he did hot see the marblo columns and the
gilded carvings-he was thinking of the men he was to meet. It seemed
too much to crowd into one day-first the vision of the whirling,