He imagined that he knew what that meant, nevertheless, on the following morning he sent Constance a tremendous bouquet and went down into the midst of the crowds at Coney Island, where of all places in the world he could be most alone and most gloomy.
"What's a million dollars anyway ?" he asked himself.
At ten o'clock on Saturday morning Mr.Birchard came into the Bronx office with much smiling, presented his credentials duly signed by each of the five Wobbles brothers, received a check for a million dollars made out, by the written instructions of the brothers, to Frederick W.
Birchard, Agent, and departed still smiling.
"One step nearer," observed Johnny to Loring an hour or so later.

"Next Saturday I'll have the remaining two and a half million and will only pay out one and a half of it.

The other million sticks with me." "The other million ?" repeated Loring.

"Oh, yes, I see.

The half-million you advanced and the half-million profit you make on this deal.