ILLUSTRATIONS

[“I beg your pardon. Is this a private raft?”]

[“Mr. Moreton, the Newport boat leaves at five-thirty”]

[“I’ll be there in five minutes, in a little blue car”]

[“Suppose you find you do hate being poor?”]

CONTENTS

[Chapter I]
[Chapter II]
[Chapter III]

Chapter I

The editor of that much-abused New York daily, Liberty, pushed back his editorial typewriter and opened one letter in the pile which the office-boy—no respecter of persons—had just laid upon the desk while whistling a piercing tune between his teeth.

The letter said: