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Updated: June 20, 2025
The morning he returned to town, prepared to leap, heart and soul into the hundred-million-dollar Red Cross drive, he had a visit from his port captain, Michael J. Murphy. "Well, sir," Murphy announced, "I've cleaned up all the little details in my department, your new port captain is on the job, and I'm about to go over to the naval training station on Goat Island and hold up my hand again.
At the top of two printed columns was the picture of a young and beautiful girl; in an oval, covering a small space over the girl's shoulder, was a picture of a man of fifty or so. Both were strangers to him. He read their names, and then the headlines. "A Hundred-Million-Dollar Love" was the caption, and after the word love was a dollar sign.
The wiseacres of Washington had nightly predicted, that the site of the hundred-million-dollar gulf naval base would be decided on in March, after the excitement and gayety attending the presidential inauguration had subsided.
The Northern Pacific was a hundred-million-dollar venture. It involved the savings of hundreds of thousands of people small bankers, tradesmen, preachers, lawyers, doctors, widows, institutions all over the land, and all resting on the faith and security of Jay Cooke.
'My people are human, he will say; 'yours are sawdust. Sometime, if you want to see New York, just get Johnny Price to take you about and introduce you to his bookmakers and burglars!" Montague meditated for a while over his friend's picture. "Somehow or other," he said, "it doesn't sound much like the president of a hundred-million-dollar corporation." "That's all right," said Mrs.
"I knew, of course, that Gene, I shouldn't have come if if only I could have heard from him." "My dear girl, it's a big game we are playing a hundred-million-dollar game! And we shall win it, unless we shall win it, in spite of them. Naturally the diamond dealers don't want to be compelled to put up one hundred million dollars.
Latham, harried by the events of the past two hours, bewildered by a hundred-million-dollar diamond deal which had been thrust down his throat gracefully, but none the less certainly, and ridden by the keenest curiosity, was delighted to see Mr. Birnes. "I've got his house address all right," Mr. Birne boasted, in the beginning.
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