The Million-Dollar Suitcase
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MacGowan Alice. The Million-Dollar Suitcase
CHAPTER I. WORTH GILBERT
CHAPTER II. SIGHT UNSEEN
CHAPTER III. A WEDDING PARTY
CHAPTER IV. AN APPARITION
CHAPTER V. AT THE ST. DUNSTAN
CHAPTER VI. ON THE ROOF
CHAPTER VII. THE GOLD NUGGET
CHAPTER VIII. A TIN-HORN GAMBLER
CHAPTER IX. SANTA YSOBEL
CHAPTER X. A SHADOW IN THE FOG
CHAPTER XI. THE MISSING DIARY
CHAPTER XII. A MURDER
CHAPTER XIII. DR. BOWMAN
CHAPTER XIV. SEVEN LOST DAYS
CHAPTER XV. AT DYKEMAN'S OFFICE
CHAPTER XVI. A LUNCHEON
CHAPTER XVII. CLEANSING FIRES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TORN PAGE
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE HILL-TOP
CHAPTER XX. AT THE COUNTRY CLUB
CHAPTER XXI. A MATTER OF TASTE
CHAPTER XXII. A DINNER INVITATION
CHAPTER XXIII. A BIT OF SILK
CHAPTER XXIV. THE MAGNET
CHAPTER XXV. AN ARREST
CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. BOWMAN SPEAKS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE COUNTRY CLUB BALL
CHAPTER XXIX. UNMASKED
CHAPTER XXX. A CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXI. THE MILLION-DOLLAR SUITCASE
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In the squabble and snatch of argument, given dignity only because it concerned the recovery of near a million dollars, we seemed to have lost Worth Gilbert entirely. He kept his seat, that chair he had taken instantly when old Dykeman seemed to wish to have it denied him; but he sat on it as though it were a lone rock by the sea. I didn't suppose he was hearing what we said any more than he would have heard the mewing of a lot of gulls, when, on a sudden silence, he burst out,
"For heaven's sake, if you men can't decide on anything, sell me the suitcase! I'll buy it, as it is, and clean up the job."
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"I've got to have the money – Monday morning – ten o'clock. I don't care what you sell – or hock. Get it."
"See here," the lawyer was puzzled, and therefore unprofessionally out of temper. "Even sacrificing your stuff in the most outrageous manner, I couldn't realize enough – not by ten o'clock Monday. You'll have to go to your father. You can catch the five-five for Santa Ysobel."
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