Excerpt: ...Johnny confidently. "You can buy anything in New York if you go at it right. Each deal is like a Chinese puzzle. You never do it twice alike." "Try this one," urged Lofty. "There's a good commission in it." "Commission? Not for Johnny!" promptly refused that young man; "I'll buy it myself, and hold you up for it." "If you come at me too strongly I'll build that tunnel," warned Lofty. "I'll figure it just below tunnel prices," Johnny laughingly assured him. The gray shawl with the pink relief came up just then, ...
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Excerpt: ...Johnny confidently. "You can buy anything in New York if you go at it right. Each deal is like a Chinese puzzle. You never do it twice alike." "Try this one," urged Lofty. "There's a good commission in it." "Commission? Not for Johnny!" promptly refused that young man; "I'll buy it myself, and hold you up for it." "If you come at me too strongly I'll build that tunnel," warned Lofty. "I'll figure it just below tunnel prices," Johnny laughingly assured him. The gray shawl with the pink relief came up just then, and all four of them immediately bought it for Johnny's sole surviving mother. CHAPTER XIV IN WHICH JOHNNY TRIES TO MIX BUSINESS WITH SKAT Louis Ersten, who puffed redly wherever he did not grayly bristle, met Johnny Gamble half-way. Johnny's half consisted in stating that he had come to see Mr. Ersten in reference to his lease. Mr. Ersten's half consisted in flatly declining to discuss that subject on the premises. "Here
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