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THE MONEY GODS
THE MONEY GODS BYELLERY H. CLARKAuthor of "Loaded Dice," "The Carlton Case," "Ebenezer's Millions,"
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Copyright, 1922, by
THE CORNHILL PUBLISHING COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING MOTION PICTURE RIGHTS, DRAMATIC
RIGHTS, SERIAL RIGHTS, AND INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
Printed in the United States of America
THE JORDAN & MORE PRESS
BOSTON
To
Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Shepard
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | |
| I | Hide and Seek. |
| II | Tangled Threads. |
| III | The Golfers. |
| IV | A Flurry in the Market. |
| V | Fools Rush In. |
| VI | Misery Meets Company. |
| VII | The Adventure of Blagden. |
| VIII | The Adventure of Tubby Mills. |
| IX | A Message from the Past. |
| X | The Adventure of Atherton. |
| XI | A Fresh Start. |
| XII | The Flight of Bellingham. |
| XIII | The Great Secret. |
| XIV | A Triple Discovery. |
| XV | Thrust and Parry. |
| XVI | The Final Effort. |
| XVII | The Power and the Glory. |
| XVIII | Fate is Fickle. |
| XIX | The Sowers of the Wind. |
| XX | The End. |
THE MONEY GODS
THE MONEY GODS
CHAPTER I
Hide And Seek
Outside the open window, clustering ramblers flecked the wall with crimson, and the ceaseless murmur of the questing bees filled the midsummer air with melody. No other sound disturbed the silence of the study, where Marshall Hamilton, President of the Standard Bank, and his secretary, Hugh Bellingham, sat facing one another at the table in the centre of the room. One by one, the capitalist was disposing of the documents before him, working rapidly, but with the absolute precision acquired by years of experience in the world of high finance. A note here, a numeral there, a word of explanation to the secretary; at length he had completed his task.
"That will be all, Bellingham," he said curtly. "When you've attended to these, you may have the rest of the day to yourself. I'm expecting some friends to play golf."
Bellingham rose, picked up the papers from the table, and with a murmured word of thanks made his way slowly up the broad staircase to his pleasant, airy room at the top of the house. Yet it was evident that he viewed the prospect of a holiday with indifference, for as he seated himself at his desk and gazed forth over Marshall Hamilton's broad acres, the look upon his face was one of discouragement bordering on despair, while his thoughts, gloomily disconsolate, were divided between pity for himself and envy of his employer. How would it feel, he wondered, to change places with the banker, if only for a day, and to become the owner of these well-kept lawns, these groves of birch and pine, the hills and valleys of the links and the sea-blue river winding its leisurely way through the green and fertile meadows on its journey toward the sea. That would