Five Thousand an Hour; How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV IN WHICH GRESHAM FINDS JOHNNY'S OLD PARTNER ACCOMMODATING BENEATH the grandstand, Gresham caught up with a thin-faced and sandy- haired man whose colorless eyebrows and almost colorless eyes gave his waxlike countenance a peculiarly blank expression ? much as if one had drawn a face and had forgotten to mark in the features. The man started nervously as Gresham touched him on the shoulder, and his thin lips parted in a frightened snarl. You have such a ghastly way of slipping up behind one, he complained, brushing the shoulder upon which Gresham had laid his hand. You're nervous, Collaton. I'm not Johnny Gamble, laughed Gresham. Suppose you were indignantly retorted Collaton. I'm not avoiding Johnny. And he studied Gresham furtively. The Gamble-Collaton books are. Do you imagine there are any more outstanding accounts against your firm? How should I know ? Collaton glanced about him uneasily. True enough ? how should you ? agreed Gresham soothingly. I'd feel rather sorry for Gamble if an old and forgotten note against your firm, upon which a judgment had been quietly secured ' by default', should turn up just now. I don't think one will, returned Collaton, searching Gresham's eyes. Why? Because he is almost certain to make a deposit in the Fourth National Bank in a short time. That's a very good reason, laughed Collaton, now certain of the eyes. If that deposit were to be attached, went on Gresham suavely, it might embarrass him very much. There was a slight pause. If you'll call me up to-night I'll let you know how much it will be and when he is likely to bank it. Why do you tell me this? puzzled Col- laton. Because I want him broke explained Gresham, his face suddenly twi...