Strictly Business
STRICTLY BUSINESS
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STRICTLY
BUSINESS
MORE STORIES OF THE FOUR MILLION
BY
Author of “The Four Million,” “The Voice of the City,” “The Trimmed Lamp,” “Sixes and Sevens,” “Whirligigs,” Etc.
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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
FOR
REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I. | Strictly Business | 3 |
II. | The Gold That Glittered | 21 |
III. | Babes in the Jungle | 34 |
IV. | The Day Resurgent | 43 |
V. | The Fifth Wheel | 54 |
VI. | The Poet and the Peasant | 73 |
VII. | The Robe of Peace | 83 |
VIII. | The Girl and the Graft | 90 |
IX. | The Call of the Tame | 100 |
X. | The Unknown Quantity | 109 |
XI. | The Thing’s the Play | 118 |
XII. | A Ramble in Aphasia | 130 |
XIII. | A Municipal Report | 148 |
XIV. | Psyche and the Pskyscraper | 173 |
XV. | A Bird of Bagdad | 183 |
XVI. | Compliments of the Season | 194 |
XVII. | A Night in New Arabia | 209 |
XVIII. | The Girl and the Habit | 231 |
XIX. | Proof of the Pudding | 240 |
XX. | Past One at Rooney’s | 255 |
XXI. | The Venturers | 276 |
XXII. | The Duel | 294 |
XXIII. | “What You Want” | 302 |
STRICTLY BUSINESS
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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