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[Illustration: "DON DEAR, YOU'RE LIVING TOO MUCH DOWNTOWN"]




THE WALL STREET GIRL

BY

FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

GEORGE ELLIS WOLFE

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS




COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY EVERY WEEK CORPORATION

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published September 1916




TO

THALIA




CONTENTS

       I. Don Receives a Jolt                                        1
      II. It Becomes Necessary to Eat                               11
     III. The Queen Was in the Parlor                               20
      IV. Concerning Sandwiches                                     27
       V. Business                                                  43
      VI. Two Girls                                                 64
     VII. Roses                                                     71
    VIII. A Man of Affairs                                          80
      IX. It Will Never Do                                          93
       X. Dictation                                                100
      XI. Steak, With Mushrooms and Advice                         111
     XII. A Social Widow                                           123
    XIII. Dear Sir--                                               129
     XIV. In Reply                                                 138
      XV. Cost                                                     144
     XVI. A Memorandum                                             153
    XVII. On the Way Home                                          161
   XVIII. A Discourse on Salaries                                  171
     XIX. A Letter                                                 184
      XX. Stars                                                    185
     XXI. In the Dark                                              193
    XXII. The Sensible Thing                                       200
   XXIII. Looking Ahead                                            207
    XXIV. Vacations                                                215
     XXV. In the Park                                              223
    XXVI. One Stuyvesant                                           238
   XXVII. The Stars Again                                          247
  XXVIII. Seeing                                                   256
    XXIX. Mostly Sally                                             264
     XXX. Don Explains                                             275
    XXXI. Sally Decides                                            295
   XXXII. Barton Appears                                           305
  XXXIII. A Bully World                                            317
   XXXIV. Don Makes Good                                           321
    XXXV. "Home, John"                                             330




THE WALL STREET GIRL




CHAPTER I

DON RECEIVES A JOLT


Before beginning to read the interesting document in front of him,
Jonas Barton, senior member of Barton & Saltonstall, paused to clean
his glasses rather carefully, in order to gain sufficient time to
study for a moment the tall, good-looking young man who waited
indifferently on the other side of the desk. He had not seen his late
client's son since the latter had entered college--a black-haired,
black-eyed lad of seventeen, impulsive in manner and speech. The
intervening four years had tempered him a good deal. Yet, the
Pendleton characteristics were all there--the square jaw, the rather
large, firm mouth, the thin nose, the keen eyes. They were all there,
but each a trifle subdued: the square jaw not quite so square as the
father's, the mouth not quite so large, the nose so sharp, or the
eyes so keen. On the other hand, there was a certain fineness that the
father had lacked.

In height Don fairly matched his father's six feet, although he still
lacked the Pendleton breadth of shoulder.

The son was lean, and his cigarette--a dilettante variation of honest
tobacco-smoking that had always been a source of irritation to his
father--did not look at all out of place between his long, thin
fingers; in fact, nothing else would have seemed quite suitable.
Barton was also forced to admit to himself that the young man, in some
miraculous way, managed to triumph over his rather curious choice of
raiment, based presumably on current styles. In and of themselves the
garments were not beautiful. From Barton's point of view, Don's straw
hat was too large and too high in the crown. His black