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THE MAKER OF OPPORTUNITIES
By GEORGE GIBBS
The Maker of Opportunities
The Forbidden Way
The Bolted Door
Tony’s Wife
The Medusa Emerald
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
THE MAKER OF
OPPORTUNITIES
BY
AUTHOR OF “THE FORBIDDEN WAY,”
“THE BOLTED DOOR,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
EDMUND FREDERICK
Copyright, 1912, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1905, by The Metropolitan Magazine Company
Copyright, 1905, 1906, by Street and Smith
Copyright, 1911, by the Red Book Corporation
Published April, 1912
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE MAKER OF OPPORTUNITIES
CHAPTER I
It was two o’clock. Mr. Mortimer Crabb pushed back the chair from his breakfast tray and languidly took up the morning paper. He had a reputation (in which he delighted) of dwelling in a Castle of Indolence, and took particular pains that no act of his should belie it. There were persons who smiled at his affectations, for he had a studio over a stable in one of the cross streets up town, where he dawdled most of his days, supine in his easy chair. The age was running to athletics, so Mr. Crabb in public had become the apostle and high priest of flaccidity. He raised a supercilious eyebrow at tennis, drawled his disparagement of polo and racquets and recoiled at the mere mention of college football. But those highest in Crabb’s favor knew that there were evenings when he met professional pugilists at this same shrine of æstheticism,