The Master Rogue: The Confessions of a Croesus

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THE MASTER ROGUE
The Confessions of a Crœsus
By David Graham Phillips
Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant
McClure, Phillips & Co. New York 1903
Copyright, 1903, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO Published September, 1903
THE MASTER ROGUE
I cannot remember the time when I was not absolutely certain that I would be a millionaire. And I had not been a week in the big wholesale dry-goods house in Worth Street in which I made my New York start, before I looked round and said to myself: “I shall be sole proprietor here some day.”
Probably clerks dream the same thing every day in every establishment on earth—but I didn’t dream; I knew . From earliest boyhood I had seen that the millionaire was the only citizen universally envied, honoured, and looked up to. I wanted to be in the first class, and I knew I had only to stick to my ambition and to think of nothing else and to let nothing stand in the way of it. There are so few men capable of forming a definite, serious purpose, and of persisting in it, that those who are find the road almost empty before they have gone far.