The Money Gods

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Ellery H. Clark. The Money Gods

The Money Gods

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

Hide And Seek

CHAPTER II

Tangled Threads

CHAPTER III

The Golfers

CHAPTER IV

A Flurry in the Market

CHAPTER V

Fools Rush In

CHAPTER VI

Misery Meets Company

CHAPTER VII

The Adventure of Blagden

CHAPTER VIII

The Adventure of Tubby Mills

CHAPTER IX

A Message from the Past

CHAPTER X

The Adventure of Atherton

CHAPTER XI

A Fresh Start

CHAPTER XII

The Flight of Bellingham

CHAPTER XIII

The Great Secret

CHAPTER XIV

A Triple Discovery

CHAPTER XV

Thrust and Parry

CHAPTER XVI

The Final Effort

CHAPTER XVII

The Power and the Glory

CHAPTER XVIII

Fate is Fickle

CHAPTER XIX

The Sowers of the Wind

CHAPTER XX

The End

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Ellery H. Clark

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"Not at first," rejoined Norton. "I'll admit that. But you don't complete your parallel. After a while, as your supply of fish begins to diminish, you will find that those which are left will grow wiser and more suspicious. And that is the time when you will need all your skill, and must use your choicest bait."

"No, no," McKay protested warmly, "that's not a fair argument at all. We are not discussing some possible time when fish grow wise. We are confining ourselves to facts; my premise is that you can catch all you need with your bare hook. And when four men--" he added, with a wave of his hand toward the papers on the table, "can make forty million dollars in twelve months, without half trying, it certainly doesn't appear as if our human fish were possessed of any great supply either of caution or of brains."

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