Isham, Frederic Stewart / 2008-06-19 00:00:00

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A MAN AND HIS MONEY

_By_
FREDERIC S. ISHAM

_Author of_
Under the Rose, Half a Chance,
The Social Bucaneer, Etc.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
MAX J. SPERO


1912


A MAN AND HIS MONEY


CHAPTER I

THE COACH OF CONCORD
"Well? What can I do for you?"
The speaker--a scrubby little man--wheeled in the rickety office chair
to regard some one hesitating on his threshold. The tones were not
agreeable; the proprietor of the diminutive, run-down establishment,
"The St. Cecilia Music Emporium," was not, for certain well defined
reasons, in an amiable mood that morning. He had been about to reach
down for a little brown jug which reposed on the spot usually allotted
to the waste paper basket when the shadow of the new-comer fell
obtrusively, not to say offensively, upon him.
It was not a reassuring shadow; it seemed to spring from an
indeterminate personality. Mr. Kerry Mackintosh repeated his question
more bruskly; the shadow (obviously not a customer,--no one ever sought
Mr.
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