[A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White]@TWC D-Link bookA Certain Rich Man CHAPTER XVI 20/29
I'm going to be a tourist-sleeper millionaire.
I stick to Sycamore Ridge; Jeanette goes to the public schools; Jane buys her clothes at Bob Hendricks' or Dorman's, or at the most of Marshall Field in Chicago; I go fishing down at Minneola when I want rest." Ward started to protest, but Barclay headed him off.
"I made a million last year.
What did I do with it? See any yachts on the Sycamore? Observe any understudies for Jane around the place? Have you heard of any villas for the Barclays in Newport? No--no, you haven't, but you may like to know that I have control of a railroad that handles more wheat than any other hundred miles in the world, and it is the key to the lake situation.
And I've put the price of my Economy Door Strip up to ten dollars, and they don't dare refuse it.
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