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Updated: April 30, 2025
The bag says IT has been to Europe. It does not say that I have been there." "But, you probably will," I pointed out, "and then some one who has really visited those places " "Listen!" commanded Kinney. "If you want adventures you must be somebody of importance. No one will go shares in an adventure with Joe Kinney, a twenty-dollar-a-week clerk, the human adding machine, the hall-room boy.
"You've held down a twenty-dollar-a-week job season in and season out, when there've been times it didn't even pay for the ink it took to write you on the pay-roll." "There's nothing I ever got out of you I didn't earn three times over." "A younger figure than yours is getting to be wouldn't hurt the line any, you know.
So each day, instead of spending the rest of his years in peace, in the enjoyment of the wealth he had accumulated, he went downtown like any twenty-dollar-a-week clerk to the tall building in lower Broadway and, closeted with his associates, toiled and plotted to make more money. He acquired vast copper mines and secured control of this and that railroad.
"We haven't all of us got the looks, Gert, that'll get us four-carat stones to wear down to a twenty-dollar-a-week job." Miss Dobriner's hand flew to her throat and the gem that gleamed there. "I I guess I can buy a stone on time for myself without without any insinuations." "You can wear the stone, all right, Gert, but you can't get past the insinuations."
Though he was a "space-man" now, dependent for his earnings upon the number of columns weekly which he had in the paper, and ostensibly equipped to handle matter of importance, a long succession of the pettiest kind of assignments was doled out to him by the city desk: obituary notices of insignificant people, small police items, tipsters' yarns, routine jobs such as ship news, police headquarters substitution, even the minor courts usually relegated to the fifteen or twenty-dollar-a-week men.
The bag says it has been to Europe. It does not say that I have been there." "But, you probably will," I pointed out, "and then some one who has really visited those places " "Listen!" commanded Kinney. "If you want adventures you must be somebody of importance. No one will go shares in an adventure with Joe Kinney, a twenty-dollar-a-week clerk, the human adding machine, the hall-room boy.
So each day, instead of spending the rest of his years in peace, in the enjoyment of the wealth he had accumulated, he went downtown like any twenty-dollar-a-week clerk to the tall building in lower Broadway and, closeted with his associates, toiled and plotted to make more money. He acquired vast copper mines and secured control of this and that railroad.
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