The Project Gutenberg E-text of Five Thousand an Hour

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Author

Chester, George Randolph, 1869-1924

Title

Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress

Credits

Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Businessmen -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

4353

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4353

Release Date

August 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FIVE THOUSAND AN HOUR
2. 2.How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress — BY
3. 3.GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER — Author of THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT, THE EARLY BIRD, GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD — ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY RALEIGH
4. 4.CONTENTS — FIVE THOUSAND AN HOUR — CHAPTER I — WHICH INTRODUCES JOHNNY GAMBLE AND HIS LAST HUNDRED DOLLARS — CHAPTER II — IN WHICH STRANGERS BECOME OLD FRIENDS — CHAPTER III — IN WHICH JOHNNY MIXES BUSINESS AND PLEASURE — CHAPTER IV — IN WHICH GRESHAM FINDS JOHNNY'S OLD PARTNER ACCOMMODATING — CHAPTER V — IN WHICH JOHNNY DISPLAYS TALENT AS A TRUE PROMOTER — CHAPTER VI — IN WHICH CONSTANCE DECIDES ON A FAIR GAME — CHAPTER VII — IN WHICH JOHNNY DREAMS OF A MAGNIFICENT TWENTY-STORY HOTEL — CHAPTER VIII — IN WHICH CONSTANCE SHOWS FURTHER INTEREST IN JOHNNY'S AFFAIRS — CHAPTER IX — IN WHICH JOHNNY MEETS A DEFENDER OF THE OLD ARISTOCRACY — CHAPTER X — IN WHICH JOHNNY IS SINGULARLY THRILLED BY A LITTLE CONVERSATION OVER THE TELEPHONE — CHAPTER XI — IN WHICH JOHNNY EXECUTES SOME EXCEEDINGLY RAPID BUSINESS DEALS — CHAPTER XII — IN WHICH JOHNNY EVEN DOES BUSINESS AT THE BABIES' FUND FAIR — CHAPTER XIII — IN WHICH JOHNNY BUYS A PRESENT AND HATCHES A SCHEME — CHAPTER XIV — IN WHICH JOHNNY TRIES TO MIX BUSINESS WITH SKAT — CHAPTER XV — IN WHICH WINNIE CHAPERONS THE ENTIRE PARTY TO CONEY ISLAND — CHAPTER XVI — IN WHICH JOHNNY PLANS A REHEARSAL BETWEEN OLD FRIENDS — CHAPTER XVII — IN WHICH THE STRAW SAILOR HAT OF JOHNNY PLAYS AN EMBARRASSING ROLE — CHAPTER XVIII — IN WHICH THE ENTIRE WOBBLES FAMILY FOR ONCE GET TOGETHER — CHAPTER XIX — IN WHICH THE COLONEL, MESSRS. COURTNEY, WASHER AND OTHERS SIT IN A LITTLE GAME — CHAPTER XX — IN WHICH JOHNNY ASKS HIMSELF WHAT IS A MILLION DOLLARS, ANYWAY — CHAPTER XXI — IN WHICH CONSTANCE AVAILS HERSELF OF WOMAN'S PRIVILEGE TO CHANGE HER MIND — CHAPTER XXII — IN WHICH PAUL GRESHAM PROPOSES A VERY PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT — CHAPTER XXIII — IN WHICH THE BRIGHT EYES OF CONSTANCE "RAIN INFLUENCE" — CHAPTER XXIV — IN WHICH JOHNNY DEMANDS SPOT CASH AT ONCE — CHAPTER XXV — IN WHICH JOHNNY KEEPS ON DOING BUSINESS TILL THE CLOCK STRIKES FOUR

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