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Updated: May 28, 2025
"What do you want for the river-view property you have just purchased?" Mr. Slosher demanded. "I don't know," confessed Johnny, laughing. "The valuation is going up so rapidly that I can't keep track of it myself. Mrs. Guff was just in, asking the price." Mrs.
Guff, who was in such secret agitation that she quivered like jelly whenever she breathed. "Mr. Guff and myself have decided to take Miss Purry's river-view property off your hands, Mr. Gamble," was the glad tidings she conveyed to him, smiling to share his delight. "We can't think of letting that river view slip by us." "I'm glad to hear it," he announced with gratification, as he thought of Mr.
This river-view you could have had, if the window had not been boarded up, but there was a front window, whose big square shutter was generally open. This gave a boy a view of the lane and, if maliciously disposed, a chance to safely let drive an apple or a snow-ball at any "down-townie" that might rashly invade the neighborhood.
"Is there anything I can do for you in that line?" "A whole lot," replied Guff. "I'll accept the price you gave Mrs. Guff on that river-view site." "Too late," answered Johnny cheerfully. "I withdrew that offer before Mrs. Guff left the office. Mr. and Mrs. Slosher have been in since then."
He saw another day slipping past him, with a total deficit of sixteen hours behind his schedule or an appalling shortage of eighty thousand dollars when, at one o'clock on Thursday, the expected happened and a brisk little man, with a mustache which would have been highly luxuriant if he had not kept it bitten off as closely as he could reach it, dropped in, inquired for Loring, jerked a chair as close to him as he could get it and said, in one breath: "Want to sell your river-view property?"
Jim Guff's voice cracked as he hastily said: "I'll meet any offer he makes you and tack a five-thousand-dollar bonus to it." Johnny called up the De Luxe Apartments. Company and secured the ear of Mr. Chase. "I withdraw my offer of two hundred and seventy-five thousand for that river-view property," he stated. "What is the best bid you will make me above that figure?"
Chrysler breathed in the fresh draughts which swept across the wide stretches of river-view that lay open in bird-like perspective from the crest of the terraces on which the Dormillière côte, or countryside, was perched, and along which the road ran.
The navigation is attended with danger on account of the extensive shoals in the middle of the river, which are covered only by a small depth of water at this season of the year. The wind was fresh, and the schooner rolled and pitched like a ship at sea. The distance was about fifteen miles. In the middle, the river-view was very imposing.
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