[The Financier by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookThe Financier CHAPTER III 13/30
Will you give me a receipt ?" "Yep." "Do you deliver this ?" "No.
No delivery.
You have to take it away in twenty-four hours." That difficulty did not trouble him. "All right," he said, and pocketed his paper testimony of purchase. The auctioneer watched him as he went out.
In half an hour he was back with a drayman--an idle levee-wharf hanger-on who was waiting for a job. Frank had bargained with him to deliver the soap for sixty cents.
In still another half-hour he was before the door of the astonished Mr. Dalrymple whom he had come out and look at the boxes before attempting to remove them.
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