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| The Woman and Her Bonds | 1 |
| The Break in Turpentine | 31 |
| The Tipster | 77 |
| A Philanthropic Whisper | 113 |
| The Man Who Won | 129 |
| The Lost Opportunity | 161 |
| Pike’s Peak or Bust | 175 |
| A Theological Tipster | 209 |
3It seemed to Fullerton F. Colwell, of the famousStock-Exchange house of Wilson & Graves, thathe had done his full duty by his friend HarryHunt. He was a director in a half score of companies—financialdébutantes which his firm had“brought out” and over whose stock-market destinieshe presided. His partners left a great dealto him, and even the clerks in the office ungrudginglyacknowledged that Mr. Colwell was “thehardest worked man in the place, barring none”—anadmission that means much to those who knowit is always the downtrodden clerks who do all thework and their employers who take all the profitand credit. Possibly the important young menwho did all the work in Wilson & Graves’ officebore witness to Mr. Colwell’s industry so cheerfully,because Mr. Colwell was ever inquiring, verycourteously, and, above all, sympathetically, intothe amount of work each man ha